The Educational Psychologist works as an Expert Witness typically within the family court system, when assessments of young people's needs are required, and also
in special educational needs and disability tribunals (SENDISTs).
Many people across the sector have called for more in - depth knowledge in initial teacher training (ITT): more behaviour - management strategies, more focus on subject knowledge, and
more special educational needs and disability (SEND) training.
In the letter sent to parents, the headteacher of Ashton - on - Mersey school, Aidan Moloney, wrote: «Due to pressure placed upon limited resources by the existing very large cohort of SEND
[special educational needs and disabilities] pupils, Ashton - on - Mersey school has reached its capacity in delivery of SEND provision and therefore having to consider alternative options for this in future.»
And we're investing in children and young people's mental health services - an additional # 1.4 billion over the lifetime of this Parliament - that I'm working closely with my Department of Health colleagues on to ensure that children and young people with
special educational needs and disabilities derive real and lasting benefits from.
And what underpins these reforms, something that perhaps should go without saying, is the desire to see all children and young people with
special educational needs and disabilities do well in education, find employment, lead happy and fulfilled lives, and have more choice and control over the support they receive.
an Ofsted inspector (usually a serving practitioner in another local authority) specially recruited and trained in special educational needs and disabilities issues
Delegates at a Westminster Education Forum, held last week in central London, pressed Joanna Hall (pictured below), deputy director of schools at Ofsted, on the rules for joint inspections of local area provision
for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Under the Local
area special educational needs and disabilities inspection framework, inspectors review how local areas meet their responsibilities to children and young people (from birth to age 25) who have special educational needs or disabilities (or both).