One thing is clear: where LAs have a cash freeze in their High Needs NFF allocation, they will need to demand
more from their mainstream schools in terms of how they support learners with SEND.
Not exact matches
The census aims to collect
more information as to why pupils
from mainstream schools end up in alternative provision.
Newham will receive # 2.2 million
from the Department for Education over the next three years as part of an envelope of cash to help councils meet the need for
more special needs places within
mainstream schools.
He finds that African American students are much
more likely to be identified for special education, to be diagnosed with Emotional Disorders (ED), to be removed
from mainstream classrooms into
more restrictive environments, and to experience out - of -
school suspensions than are White or Asian students.
One special needs headteacher I asked said
more effort has gone into arranging ways to «throw out» special - needs children
from mainstream schools than has gone in to improving the places where they are being flung.
For children aged two or
more, special educational provision is educational or training provision that is additional to or different
from that made generally for other children or young people of the same age by main stream
schools, maintained nursery
schools,
mainstream post-16 institutions or by relevant early years providers.