Experts are concerned that SLCN is often misidentified at secondary school as some other kind of SEN, or even not identified at all. This is despite SLCN being the most common type of need for primary school pupils.
It is estimated that 10 per cent of children and young people in the UK have some form of long-term SLCN. This equates to more than one million young people, or two to three in every classroom. However, only three per cent of the school population is identified as having SLCN.
Research also shows that 13.8 per cent of young people with SLCN achieve five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and maths, compared to 70.4 per cent of all young people.
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