SEN Legislation, Guidance and New Courses
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Inclusion Development Programme Toolkit

A Tool-kit to support schools in exploring, reflecting upon and delivering the Inclusion Development Programme. Very useful guide.

Bercow Review of Services for Children and Young People (0-19) with Speech, Language and Communication Needs

This 2008 review found that overall one in 14 five-year-olds are starting school with serious speech, language and communication (SLC) needs and made 40 recommendations centred around five themes: 

  • Communication is crucial;

  • Early identification and intervention are essential;

  • A continuum of services designed around the family is needed;

  • Joint working is critical; and

  • The current system is characterised by high variability and a lack of equity

Accelerating Reading and Spelling with Synthetic Phonics: A Five Year Follow Up

Removing Barriers to Achievement : the UK Government's Feb 2004 "vision" for SEN.

Making Mathematics Count :The Report of Professor Adrian Smith's Inquiry into Post-14 Mathematics Education  (Feb 2004)

2001 SEN Code of Practice

SEN Toolkit 2001

SNIP-Newsletter  

Amongst much else that is good, this is the place to find and download your next draft SEN Policy.

Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 c.10

Booklets on Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties from QCA here

(Includes P-levels - Performance descriptions)

Information from voluntary, county and grant-maintained schools.

This sets out the info required as part of a school's SEN Policy. From 1994, and so it refers to the pre-2001 CoP.

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