statemented

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of statement.

   The local authority statemented the boy once his needs were confirmed.

   Hundreds of children were statemented that year across the county.

   Note

   The regular past form of a verb whose only meaning is the official one. A bank statement or a programming statement has no verb behind it, so this form always points to the document. Because the verb is transitive, the participle most often turns up in the passive (the child was statemented), with the issuing authority as the agent and the child as the one assessed.

2. 2
   adjectiveUK

   Officially assessed and provided with a Statement of Educational Needs, the document specifying the support a child must be given.

   The school placed two statemented pupils in a smaller class with extra support.

   Once a child is statemented, the local authority must fund the help described in the document.

   Note

   British school jargon, built from the noun statement plus -ed in the sense of 'having one': a statemented pupil is one who holds the document. It is an either-or label, so it takes no comparison, and nobody is more statemented than another. The same spelling also serves as the verb's past participle, where the focus is the act of assessment rather than the status it leaves behind.

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