A child or young person who is on the Special Educational Needs (SEN) register without an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) is over six times more likely to be permanently excluded than a child or young person with no identified SEND (DFE data 2016 – 17). Although the reasons behind these exclusions may be […]
Read MoreRecently the DfE published a research project on the information schools provide to support their pupils’ wellbeing and mental health. The report uses a sample to assess activities and approaches adopted in different schools to help schools promote pupil wellbeing. The report findings will be used by the DfE to further understand how it can […]
Read MoreOn 23 March Ofsted published new guidance here for inspectors on the use of physical intervention, restraint and the restriction of liberty. The document guides inspectors on how to ‘question and understand any type of physical intervention or restriction, including the use of isolation/seclusion in schools.’
Read MoreThe draft replacement for the 2002 joint guidance for special schools has been released and is currently subject to an online consultation on the Department of Health website until the January 24th 2018. Team Teach fully supports and endorses the views expressed by Bernard Allen, Training Consultant, Principal Team Teach Trainer & Expert Witness (Liability). […]
Read MoreThe Report of Sir Martin Narey’s independent review of children’s residential care includes key statements concerning risk, restriction and restraint the following quotations and page references below contain some of the more pertinent statements: “No child in care should be exposed to any more danger than that to which we would expose our own children. The Department […]
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