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Exclusion vs Inclusion: What’s happening to pupils with SEND?

Just as most schools were breaking up for the summer holidays in July, the DfE published their latest annual statistics on exclusions. Indeed, exclusion is a hot topic at the moment, mainly as a result of the growing concern than an increasing number of exclusions may...

The SENDCO Year

(An adapted extract from The SENDCO, by Abigail Hawkins, Consultant SENCO @ Edukey) There are a great many tasks that the SENDCO has to undertake throughout the academic year. Some are related to the whole school calendar like parents’ evenings, whereas others are...

What does an SEN file look like?

What does an SEN file look like?There are two uses of the phrase SEN file. The first refers to the file that contains all a child’s information about their SEN and provisions in place. The second is the file kept by a SENCO ready for an OFSTED (or other) visit....

SEN Money

There are two main sources of SEN funding in schools. The first is the SEN delegated budget (also called element 2 or the notional budget) and it usually comes as a shock to discover that it has nothing to do with SEN nor is it ringfenced to that area. The second is...

Data Collection

If you don’t know what to do with the data you’re collecting, you probably don’t need it. This is an excellent mantra for SENCOs when faced with the mountain of data we inevitably end up with. Education as a whole collects a lot of data and the role of SENCO is no...

5 Steps to Effective Interventions

The term ‘intervention’ is often used to describe a short-term, focused teaching programme with specific intended outcomes aimed at individuals or small groups of pupils with particular needs. Interventions are provided in addition to high quality teaching in the...

Readiness for additional learning needs reforms – Estyn report October 2018 and Welsh Government response

Reading time: 5 minutes Please find attached links to the October 2018 Estyn report “Readiness for additional learning needs reforms” and the Welsh Government response: "Readiness for additional learning needs reforms" report Welsh Government...

Cabinet Secretary for Education’s update on Additional Learning Needs (ALN) transformation programme

Reading time: 5 minutes Please see below a link to the publication of the Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams’ 17 July update to the Children, Young People and Education Committee (CYPE) on the progress of the Additional Learning Needs (ALN)...

Why all primary schools should introduce One Page Profiles

Reading time: 5 mins When my daughter was a baby it was my job to decipher her noises and know when she wanted to be fed, to be changed or to have a nap. As she began to develop her own unique babble the same remained true, even if her requests were a bit...

All Change for ALN – update

Reading time: 3 minutes The long-awaited Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Bill was passed by the National Assembly for Wales on 12 December 2017 and after receiving Royal Assent became an Act on 24 January 2018. The Welsh Government...