[senco-forum] Re: SEN Criteria

Hi Kenny

  Fight it!!!

In my LA, the official line for year 7s with learning difficulties and no other specific issues is this:
  Action from 3c to 3b
  Action Plus from 1c to 2a
  Statement for p8 and below only

  Fortunately it also says that this is for guidance only.  In my exerience, a pupil with MLD who is working below Level 3 needs a huge amount of support to access a mainstream secondary curriculum.

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall
Kenny Wheeler <wheeler_kenny at hotmail.com> wrote:

Question for the learned colleagues out there. The Lea in which I work has criteria for placinf pupils on the SEN list e.g. pupils in year 7 at level 3a or 3b are deemed Action and those at 3c and below are deemed action plus. However, they are looking to shift the parameters/goal posts with action plus shifting to 2b or below. With funding being directly hit does anyone out there have similarly low levels proposed or currently in place?

My concern is that with 2b and level 2 being seen as action plus they have in effect ruled these pupils out from the statementing process. I fear it is inclusion at cut prices, with more pupils expected to join us on level 2 in year 7. They will still however want us to push up our GCSE pass rate for 5 A* - C grades!I know it is friday and I am jaded but surely this sucks as we will have low ability pupils for which we will receive less oney for. Currently we get £140 per Action pupil and £805 per Action Plus pupil, we face losing thousands of pounds of funding and with it support staff.

If others are in the same boat then fair enough but it would interest me if this is happening across the country. Our LEA is recognised as the 4th worst funding LEA in England.

Thanks in advance for any advice or info

Kenny
Secondary SENCO/Deputy Head
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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall