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Physical violence and theft more likely for SEN students

Behaviour Disability Action research
Fifteen-year-olds with SEN statements are “significantly more likely” to be victims of physical violence or theft.

Fifteen-year-olds with SEN statements are “significantly more likely” to be victims of physical violence or theft.

A study involving information from more than 19,000 children and adolescents born in the early 1990s and 2000s has examined the prevalence of bullying at ages seven and 15 for those students with cognitive and physical impairments.

Around 17 per cent of the children and young people in the nationally representative samples had SEN, with up to five per cent having a statement of SEN.

At age seven, the researchers found a clear link – with SEN pupils being twice as likely as other children to suffer from “persistent bullying”.

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