Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Reviews

The SEND Review section will highlight all current reviews that have either been initiated by the Goverment through the DfE, or through an independent body.

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SEND - Green Paper Summit 2011

*** Downloads from the Summit Conference now available ***

The Summit Conference held on the 9th March was a tremendous success, even though there was an 11th hour cancellation by Sarah Teather who had numerous other commitments to fulfil due to the Green Paper actually being published the same day - after a 24 hour delay. This was very disappointing for the audience who had paid to come to hear the Minister give a keynote speach... even more so because she was giving a press briefing just 200 yards up the street at the DfE!!! 

The majority of the delegates quickly moved on from this to enage with what the day was really all about.... assessing the initial impact of the content of the Green Paper and providing their initial responses to the key five chapters of the paper which were identified as:

• Early identification and support
• Giving parent’s control
• Learning and achieving
• Preparing for adulthood
• Services working together for families

The key activity of the day was the delegates transcribing their issues and comments onto post it notes against each of above the five headings.

The response we had was impressive, with several hundred individual notes being posted.

Ultimately, this was the key deliverable of the day, and all these responses will be transcribed, collated and compiled into a document which will then be fed back to the DfE as the first stage in this 4 month consultation process. (See below).

The day itself presented the assembled delegates with the opportunity to be involved right at the start of the consultation process and everyone could see the real benefit of this.

The event was a great success, and much thanks must go to our joint partners.. NAHT, Nasen and SSAT in the organisation of the event, and particularly SSAT who managed all the bookings and hosted the day.

This was true collaboration at its best, and showed the value of working together to provide a real ‘Collective Voice’ on behalf of our members who work or are involved within the special educational needs and disability sector.

Hopefully this is just the beginning…

Feedback, Questions and Issues from Delegates - Now available for download

During the Summit Conference, key issues arising from the Green Paper were discussed by delegates and their questions and concerns were extensively documented.

These have now all been collated, by type of school, and placed under individual headings within each of the five key chapters (see above) that form the basis of the SEN Green Paper.

(Much thanks go to our colleagues at Nasen and SSAT for getting all the delegate's comments transcribed. A mammoth task!)

These responses will now also form a structured response that will be sent to the Department for Education (DfE) as a major part of the SEND ‘Green Paper’ consultation process.

There is also a copy of the Q&A sessions that took place with Charlie Henry of Ofsted, and Phil Snell and Andre Lunich of the DfE.

You can also download copies of each of these documents below, but remember, you must be a member of the FLSE to access these.

• Early identification and support
• Giving parent’s control
• Learning and achieving
• Preparing for adulthood
• Services working together for families
• What's Missing
• SEND Q&A Session 

• DfE - SEND Green Paper Presentation

You also have the option to download all of these documents in one go in a 'Zip' file. To do this, click here...

 
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Special Educational Needs and Disability : Ensuring Equal Opportunities for All Children

Tuesday 29th March 2011, Grange Holborn Hotel - London, 08:30 - 14:10 (half day)

The education sector is facing one of the greatest transformations in generations with the introduction of academies and the reformation of the examination system.

Earlier this month Education Secretary Michael Gove had said he wanted more "facts" in England's national curriculum, as he launches a review of what children are taught.

Although these changes to the sector hope to improve attainment and opportunities for all, the effects on young people with special education needs are still to be decided.

With a Green Paper shortly to be published regarding the future funding and support for SEN, Inside Government is holding a SEN forum on Tuesday 29th March 2011.

This forum comes at a time of great uncertainty for the sector, and will offer delegates an opportunity to discuss the future of funding and what the expected green paper will mean for the sector. Sessions will focus on early identification of young people’s needs; personalising services in mainstream and specialist schools; and discuss training for school staff.

Sessions led by expert practitioners will focus on care and early identification of young people’s needs; personalising services in mainstream and specialist schools; and discuss training for school staff.

** JUST CONFIRMED to discuss driving improvements through the inspection process is Patrick Leeson, Director, Education and Care, Ofsted **

To view the full agenda, click here: http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/1ToTy2gXMDtx7TBjX

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HOW TO BOOK and for PRICING INFORMATION

Online: http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/1ToTXgBTArQOiDU6K

Telephone: call 0845 666 0664

Email: enquiries@insidegovernment.co.uk
 

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In October 2009, Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Education, commissioned Toby Salt the Deputy Chief Executive at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services, to lead an independent review into the supply of teachers trained to meet the needs of children with severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).

Since the formation of the new Government on the 11th May 2010, please bear in mind that the content on a number of old DCSF websites may not reflect current Government policy.

The review will form part of the additional support for children with Special Educational Needs that the DCSF had announced in September 2009....

The Lamb Inquiry was established as part of the Government’s response to the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Report Special Educational Needs: Assessment and Funding. The Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Brian Lamb, the Chair of the Special Educational Consortium, was tasked with investigating a range of ways in which parental confidence in the SEN assessment process might be improved.

The Inquiry took an extensive look across the special educational needs system and the impact on parental confidence. It gathered a wide range of views from parents, children, teachers and other professionals involved in delivering and managing services.......

Since the formation of the new Government on the 11th May 2010, please bear in mind that the content on a number of old DCSF websites may not reflect current Government policy.

Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (CLDD) Research Project:
Developing meaningful pathways to personlised learning

In November 2009, the SSAT (commissioned by the DCSF) appointed a CLDD research team to work alongside 12 teacher researchers in SSAT member special schools across the UK to develop effective strategies for these children (January - December 2010). From September 2010, 50 further UK schools and 10 international schools will trial the tools and materials developed during phase 1 of the project.