As you return after the recent break, hopefully well rested, recharged and ready to embrace the new academic year, you may be expecting to see emotions run high for many children as you welcome both new and returning students once again. We all know the excitement of a new chapter in our lives can come […]
Read MoreThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) will review and make recommendations about the use of restrictive interventions in settings that provide inpatient and residential care for people with mental health problems, a learning disability and/or autism. The review has been commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock. The CQC will […]
Read MoreA 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 MoreThe issue of the use of isolation has hit the press – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46044394. Bernard Allen, Training Consultant & Expert Witness (Liability), has provided the following advice for Team Teach trainers and services: “What the press and TV reports did not seem to realise is that the guidance is at fault here. We have also had […]
Read MoreThousands of children with disabilities will now have more legal protection against schools excluding them. This follows a landmark case involving the parents of a teenager with autism. Solicitor Polly Sweeney: the decision will give disabled children the “same safeguards, protections and rights” as other pupils. The case focused on preventing schools excluding pupils over […]
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