Glossary: Residential Special School

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A special school which accommodates pupils overnight, including a residential maintained or non-maintained special school, or a residential independent school wholly or mainly accommodating children with special educational needs. If such a school accommodates one or more children for more than 295 days a year at the school or in school arranged accommodation, it is a children’s home (see s1(6) of the CSA for the full definition). Thus schools providing “52 week” accommodation must register as children’s homes. They may continue to be called schools, however.