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DFEE Green Paper
Excellence for all Children Meeting Special Educational Needs
A programme for early action...
The following section summarises what we aim to achieve for SEN
provision over the lifetime of this Parliament. Much of that programme will
depend on the responses to this Green Paper. But we want to make urgent
progress in key areas, to help prepare for action in all parts of the country
and in all schools over the next few years. We are therefore announcing a
series of co-ordinated projects to kick start the process. By early next year,
each of the actions described below will be under way.
- We shall be working with a group of LEAs and schools with relevant
experience, to establish the necessary conditions for promoting inclusion much
more widely.
- We shall be working with schools in a small number of LEAs, to find
ways in which staff in special and mainstream schools can most effectively
support each other.
- We shall be funding research to assess the relative costs, benefits
and practical implications of educating children in mainstream and special
schools.
- We shall announce a significant expansion in the Schools Access
Initiative, to help mainstream schools become more accessible to children with
disabilities.
- We shall be supporting projects in two regional Government Offices,
to prepare for the introduction of regional planning arrangements for SEN.
- We shall be working with a group of LEAs, schools and voluntary
bodies representing parents, to promote effective arrangements for parent
partnership.
- We shall be supporting a project to help special schools develop
procedures for target setting.
- The DfEE, with the support of OFSTED, will run a programme of
practical workshops to help special schools for children with emotional and
behavioural difficulties improve the achievement of their pupils.
- All Government policies for schools will include an explicit
assessment of the implications for children with special educational needs.
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