Special Educational Needs & Disability Updates
SEN and Disability Update 22 — March 2007 - This edition includes a look at the Children and Young People's Review.
SEN and Disability Update 21 — November 2006 — This edition includes the Government's response to the Education and Skills Committee's report on special educational needs.
SEN and Disability Update 20 — June 2006 — This edition includes features on P scales, Removing Barriers to Achievement (RBA) and implementing the Disability Discrimination Act in schools and early years settings.
SEN and Disability Update 19 — March 2006 — This edition includes features on CAMHS, P Scales and Parent Partnerships.
SEN and Disability Update 18 — November 2005 — This edition includes features on, The new Schools White Paper, the Accessibility Planning Project (APP) and the reasonable adjustment project (RAP), P scales, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) mapping, and the SEN Regional Partnerships (SENRP).
SEN and Disability Update 17 — November 2004 — This edition includes features on, SEN and young people who have offended, P scales, Early Support News, new resources from the Primary National Strategy and managing medicine in schools.
SEN and Disability Update 16 — December 2004 — This edition includes features on, performance tables, P scales, the Early Support Pilot Programme, the Communication Aids Project and national centres for early interventions.
SEN Update 15 — June 2004 — This edition includes features on, expert advisers, P scales, the Early Support Pilot Programme, the Primary Strategy, PLASC, details of the latest publications and much more.
SEN Update 14 - March 2004 — This edition features articles on the Governments new strategy for SEN, Removing Barriers to Achievement, the latest news from the Regional Partnerships, information on P-Scales, information on conferences and Progress File — the successor to the National Record of Achievement.
SEN Update 13 — November 2003 — This edition includes articles on the SEN Action Programme, SEN Regional Partnerships, Conferences and publications and the SEN website*.
SEN Update 12 — July 2003 — This edition is features articles on the SEN Action Programme, Definitions of SEN, Children's Trusts, Inclusion Website, Education Protects, Regional Partnerships, Small Programmes Fund & Research.
SEN Update 11 — March 2003
— This newsletter reports on recent key developments in special
educational needs. It focuses on SEN standards fund, LEA funding arrangements,
new SEN Action Programme, P Scales, Special Schools Working Group report,
Childrens Trusts and news on the launch of a new website for the education of
children in care.
SEN Update 10 — November 2002 — This newsletter reports on recent key developments in special educational needs. It focuses on New Disability Duties, SEN and Disability Tribunal, School Transfers, SEN Regional Partnerships, Assessment Arrangements, National Service Framework, Behaviour and Education Support Teams, 16+ Transitions, SPELL IT, New publications.
SEN Update 9 — June 2002 — This newsletter reports on recent key developments in special educational needs. It focuses on the changes to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the importance of inclusion through the Beacon school activities, P Scales and the work of the SEN Regional Partnerships.
SEN Update 8 — November 2001 — This newsletter reports on key developments in special educational needs. This edition shares ideas on how the new performance criteria for pupils working below level 1 of the National Curriculum (the P scales) can support teachers in planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum. Case studies show how the P scales can be used by schools to set performance targets for children with SEN.
SEN Update 7 — June 2001— This newsletter reports on the latest developments in special educational needs since November 1998, when DfEE published Meeting Special Educational Needs: A programme of action.
SEN Update 6 — March 2001 — This newsletter reports on the latest developments in special educational needs since November 1998, when DfEE published Meeting Special Educational Needs: A programme of action.
SEN Update 5 — November 2000 — This newsletter reports on the latest developments in special educational needs since November 1998, when DfEE published Meeting Special Educational Needs: A programme of action.
SEN Update 4 — March 2000 — This newsletter reports on the latest developments in special educational needs since November 1998, when DfEE published Meeting Special Educational Needs: A programme of action.
SEN Update 3 — November 1999 — This newsletter reports on further developments in special educational needs since November 1998, when DfEE published Meeting Special Educational Needs: A programme of action.
SEN Update 2 — June 1999 — This newsletter reports on developments in special educational needs since November 1998 when DfEE published Meeting Special Educational Needs: A programme of Action.
SEN Update 1 — June 1998 — This newsletter reports on the response to the SEN Green Paper consultation. It also includes information about how we have met our commitments on each of the "early action" projects in the Paper and other SEN projects we are supporting.
