DfEE Green Paper (22/10/1997)

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6 Developing skills

School governors

18. A fundamental objective for governing bodies is to help raise standards. Monitoring the school's arrangements for children with SEN is part and parcel of that. In addition, governors have statutory responsibilities to publish information in their annual report about the school's SEN policy and about the school's admissions arrangements for pupils with disabilities, including how the school will help such pupils gain access and what it will do to make sure they are treated fairly. Governors should therefore be actively involved in developing, supporting, and reviewing the school's policy on SEN in consultation with the headteacher and SENCO. Yet OFSTED's report on the Code in 1996 commented that many governors were not aware of their responsibilities for SEN.

19. Opportunities for high quality training in special needs for governors should be improved. Excellence in schools committed us to issuing guidance on how governors' training needs can be met, drawing on the best of existing LEA practice; this guidance will cover governors' responsibilities for pupils with SEN.

QUESTION: What kinds of training would help governors to carry out effectively their responsibilities for pupils with SEN?

31/08/2000