[senco-forum] Notifications and Announcements

Dear All,

This week's notice includes: 

1. SENCO Update
2. AchieveAbility: Widening Participation? The SpLD Voice

Full details below. 

If you have any announcements, information about courses, details of
conferences, job vacancies that you would like included in future
notices please email details to: senco-forum-owner at lists.becta.org.uk

Regards, 

Jason 
Becta 

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1. SENCO Update

June 2006, Issue 76

P.1 News: Overview of the NUT Commissioned Costs of Inclusion report by
researchers based at the University of Cambridge that calls for a review
of policies which favour underesourced inclusion; Announcement of new
guidance on implementing the Every Child Matters: Change for Children
Programme.

P.2 News: I CAN/ Protocol survey findings - majority of teachers (up to
70%) feel that they receive inadequate training to support the need of
pupils with communication impairments; Policy Research Bureau report
Young People, Risk and Protection - young people are more risk than
others regarding offending and antisocial behaviour.

P.3. News: Further reflection/comment on the Costs of Inclusion study. 

P.4-5 Publications Digest:  Detailed summary of guidance Working
Together to Safeguard Children: A Guide to Inter-agency Working to
Promote and Safegurad the Welfare of Children & a consideration of
implications for SENCOs.

P.6-7 Professional Update: Easy PC - simple adaptations that can make
all the difference. AbilityNet's John Little describes a range of ICT
based approaches to ensuring that pupils with SEN/disabilities can
access the curriculum.

P.8-9: Perspective: Michael Farrell argues that defining the needs of
pupils continues to be problem in most local authorities and suggests
ways in which SENCOs can contribute to clarifying understandings.

P.10: Resource Extra: Epilepsy Action's work in raising awareness of the
needs of children with epilepsy is summarised, and guidance about
appropriate terminology to use when discussimg the condition is
outlined.

P.11. Website of the Month:  Epilepsy Action.  Resources: New books:
Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults ;
The SENCO Handbook; Inclusion in the Early Years: Critical Analyses and
Enabling Narratives; The SEN Handbook for Trainee Teachers, NQTs and
Teaching Assistants.

P.12. Conferences and courses

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2. AchieveAbility: Widening Participation? The SpLD Voice

The AchieveAbility Aimhigher National project is holding a conference on
22nd June 2006 at the University of Westminster to allow the voice of
those with Specific Learning Differences (10-20% of UK population) to be
heard in relation to the national widening participation agenda (target
50% of 18-30 yr olds in HE by 2010).

The potential loss of intellectual talent to education and employment is
the central issue which will be explored in presentations, seminar
sessions and by the keynote speakers Bill Rammell MP, minister for
further and higher education, and Shirley Cramer, Chief Executive of
Dyslexia Action (formerly the Dyslexia Institute).

Further can be found on the project website at
http://www.achieveability.org.uk/extra61.html