It encompasses a process of reflection, planning and review of policies and practices, and includes an evaluation of
how pupils with special educational needs are identified by the school, the interventions that are put in place to meet their needs and how the outcomes of those interventions are measured and monitored.
Since all teachers have responsibility for
teaching pupils with special educational needs, it is important that all staff members engage in appropriate CPD to develop the capacity of schools to meet the educational needs of all pupils.
This new analysis by the Education Policy Institute assesses whether this omission is justified, by examining how
far pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) currently have to travel to get to a special school.
In the last seven years, I have seen projects focussed on developing gifted and talented students, encouraging pupils with low confidence and self - esteem,
engaging pupils with special educational needs (SEN)-- all projects designed to bring out the best in pupils across the academic spectrum.
The programme will assist schools to take a whole - school approach to tackling the problem and develop resources for use across the curriculum, training staff to address HBT bullying wherever it occurs, including
amongst pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
The NUT also voted to strike if further cuts to central and school support services are threatened, and expressed fears about an apparent drop of nearly 6 per cent in the number of
pupils with special educational needs since 2010.
New data from The Key highlights the struggle of mainstream schools to support 1.1 million [1] pupils with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) amidst delays to assessments, insufficient budgets and cuts to local authorities.
The Department acknowledges the very significant progress made by schools in developing inclusive practices and provision whereby the vast majority of
pupils with special educational needs now attend mainstream schools.
It is important that schools have established procedures / protocols for liaising with these services and bodies in order to optimise the quality of provision for
pupils with special educational needs at the individual, group or whole - school level.
This agenda has become increasingly significant in the context of an increased focus in the UK over the last two decades towards inclusive education, where schools are expected to educate all pupils within a mainstream setting and to «actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or
exclude pupils with special educational needs (Department for Education 2001, p. 5).»
The version of LS in this University of Exeter website has relevance to developing and adapting teaching approaches for
pupils with special educational needs in different settings, both ordinary and special settings.
The «divided nation» between schools in the north and south outlined by Sir Michael Wilshaw this morning extends to the outcomes
of pupils with special educational needs, Ofsted's annual report shows.
Special provision funding is for local authorities to create places for
pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and to improve facilities for them in mainstream and special schools, nurseries, colleges and other education providers.
«Will the Minister make a statement on resources for
pupils with special educational needs?
Certainly, proposals around free school meal charging, provisions for
pupils with special educational needs, school based counselling and the reduction of bureaucracy, are all positive steps forward.
Pupils with special educational needs are not receiving the support they are entitled to due to budget cuts
«The plan to pilot reforms to the assessment of
pupils with special educational needs and disabilities must be undertaken carefully.
Laws on flexible leave and help for parents of
pupils with special educational needs to be included in legislative programme
Commenting on the Department for Education's announcement on SEN and disability provision Christine Blower General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers the largest teachers» union said: «The NUT fully supports the aspiration to improve services available for
pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
Other concerns include what will happen to the community role that used to be performed by local education authorities in relation to badly - behaved pupils or
pupils with special educational needs.
It will allow patients to shop around for the surgery most likely to prescribe an expensive drug, or parents to find out which school is best for high achievers or
pupils with special educational needs.
The newly - opened schools include primary, secondary and all - through schools, and sixth form colleges — with some tailored specifically to technical education, including new UTCs, and a number of schools for
pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).