The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. In this special school, all children and pupils are supported by My Plan or My Plan Plus, or have an education, health and care plan. Their needs include profound and multiple learning difficulties, or severe learning difficulties. Increasingly, they have additional complex conditions that provide significant barriers to communication. A significant proportion who join the school are non-verbal, or have very limited communication skills. Around half have a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder. There are four classes. Each class is organised by ability and special need. The age ranges in each class are from two to seven years. In some classes there is a greater proportion of older pupils than others. Very few pupils are eligible for support through the pupil premium. This is additional Inspection report: Battledown Centre for Children and Families, 3–4 October 2017 Page 8 of 11 government funding provided for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals or who are looked after by the local authority. The school provides specialist assessment of children from birth to age seven, covering the whole range of additional needs. The school provides support for teachers, teaching assistants and early years practitioners in other educational settings. Situated within the Battledown Centre for Children and Families is the Child Development Centre (CDC). This is an early years setting for children with additional needs to attend with their parents or carers from birth to the age of about three years.