[senco-forum] Notifications and Announcements

Dear All,

This week's notice includes: 

1. SENCO Update

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 

March 2007, Issue 84 

P.1 News: TDA commitment to improving SEN training - prioritising of
SEN/inclusion durig the next three years. 

P.2 News: Ways to mimimise bureaucracy - The Implementation Review
Unit's latest report on SEN bureaucracy highlight's, among other things,
the possiblity for schools of developing alternatives to IEPS.

P.3 News: DfES guidance to local authorities on planning and developing
SEN provision - draft guidance which aims to ensure that authorities do
not make changes to provision without consulting stakeholders, and
parents in particular; New 'specialist' special schools - there are now
41 such schools in England.

P.4 News: New models of school leadership - PriceWaterhouse report on
new models of leadership raises serious issues about qualifications
required by key personnel working in schools; Leadership the key to
inclusive provision post-16 - Ofsted report.

P.5 Research news: School supported distance learning - pilot projects
for helping travelling children through the use of ICT. 

P. 6-7 Research Feature: Telling it like it is: the experiences of
disabled young people and their families - insights into views on
inclusion, support and related issues.

P.8 Publications digest: What to do if you are worried about a child
being abused - Revised DfES guidance 

P.9 Professional Update:  Pupils with traumatic brain injury - providing
effective support, an overview by Michael Farrell.

P.10 Case in Point: Children who 'feel the cold': teachers should know
it could be Raynaud's - brief guidance and sources of further
information.

P.11: Website of the Month & Resources: Incentive Plus resources to
support SEBD pupils; New books on ADHD, Assessment for Learning; A new
book responding to Mary Warnock's concerns about the SEN system (2005);
Success for Everyone - new resource to supoprt the development of
effective inclusive provision

P.12. Conferences and courses 

Christopher Robertson 

The University of Birmingham 
Email: c.m.robertson at bham.ac.uk 

Email: c.m.robertson at bham.ac.uk 