DfEE Green Paper (22/10/1997) 4 Increasing inclusion

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4 Increasing inclusion

The ultimate purpose of SEN provision is to enable young people to flourish in adult life. There are therefore strong educational, as well as social and moral, grounds for educating children with SEN with their peers. We aim to increase the level and quality of inclusion within mainstream schools, while protecting and enhancing specialist provision for those who need it. We will redefine the role of special schools to bring out their contribution in working with mainstream schools to support greater inclusion.

SUMMARY

By 2002...

A growing number of mainstream schools will be willing and able to accept children with a range of special educational needs: as a consequence, an increasing proportion of those children with statements of SEN who would currently be placed in special schools will be educated in mainstream schools.
National and local programmes will be in place to support increased inclusion.
Special and mainstream schools will be working together alongside and in support of one another.

31/08/2000