Reasonable Adjustments and Special Considerations ensure that a learner’s disability, learning difficulty or access requirements are taken into account when planning assessment. This ensures learner's who can evidence their additional needs have access to fair assessment. 

This document must be used for the following:

1. Centre Awarded Reasonable Adjustments

2. Reasonable Adjustments which need to be approved by FutureQuals.

Special Consideration applications - Please contact FutureQuals.

Please refer to the current Reasonable Adjustment and Special Considerations Policy, which can be found on the FutureQuals website. www.futurequals.com/policiesand procedures

FutureQuals requires centres to keep a log of all reasonable adjustments, including those that have been declined.

Centres must complete this form when they wish to make a reasonable adjustment to an internally centre set assessment or examination, which the FutureQuals Reasonable Adjustments and Special Consideration policy states can be made at the discretion of the centre.

Please complete a separate form for each learner and submit with the appropriate supporting evidence at least 10 working days before the assessment date for applications that require approval by FutureQuals and at least 5 working days before a centre approved adjustment is applied.

Centre's must ensure that suitably qualified personnel check that the evidence is current and relevant to the learner. Examples of evidence could be but are not limited to:

- a Statement of Special Educational Needs relating to secondary education, or an Education, Health and Care Plan, which confirms the Learner’s disability
- a letter from a hospital consultant/Occupational Health Service etc.
- an assessment carried out no earlier than the start of Year 9 by a specialist assessor confirming a learning difficulty relating to secondary/further education, including standardised test scores.

In the absence of formal evidence, FutureQuals will consider a history of need within the Centre. This should include information about the support received by the learner during the learning programme and during formative assessments. Evidence of the way in which the learner's needs are being met during the learning programme should be documented for audit purposes.

Centres should note that a negative decision can be appealed

(please see FutureQuals’ Appeals Policy)