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Uniquely, each school is selected on merit alone. No one can buy their way into The Good Schools Guide’s good books. Writers visit every single school, interview the head, speak to pupils and parents, analyse academic performance and challenge the marketing hype.

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The Council for the Registration of Schools Teaching Dyslexic Pupils (CreSTeD) provides an accreditation to schools and teaching centres for their learning support provision for specific learning differences (SpLD).

All schools and centres included in the Register are visited regularly to ensure they continue to meet their criteria. The Register is a source of educational establishments which parents can use as their first step towards making a placement decision which will be critical to the educational future of their child with SpLD.

The majority of schools on the register are mainstream schools that are also able to give excellent help to pupils with SpLD: dyslexia and also – when combined with dyslexia – dyscalculia, dyspraxia, ADD, and language difficulties. In addition they include teaching centres where children can find additional support outside of and /or in addition to their day to day schooling.

The register has become established as a first source of such guidance for:

Read our Fairley House School Report: CReSTeD Report