“…In another meta-analysis, Nowicki (2003) also concluded that these children occupy a less favourable social position in their classroom and experience more social difficulties than their average to high-M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 2 achieving peers. What is worrying is that similar negative findings have been reported across different national school systems including the UK (Nabuzoka & Smith, 1993;Frederickson & Furnham, 2004;Avramidis, 2013), Canada (Kuhne & Wiener, 2000), Spain (Cambra & Silvestre, 2003), the US (Estell et al, 2008), Norway (Pijl, Frostad, & Flem, 2008), Holland (Bakker et al, 2007;Koster et al, 2010), Cyprus (Mamas, 2012), Italy (Nepi et al, 2013), and Germany (Mand, 2007;Krull, Wilbert, & Hennemann, 2014). The results from these studies suggest that SEN pupils tend to hold a lower social position and to have fewer stable friendships than their peers.…”