[senco-forum] A tricky question (secondary)

Maggie -- "Obliged" to review? Probably not if you imply legal requirement. The CoP is Statutory Guidance not the law. But, whatever terminology is used for the first graduated phase of identifying a child's addtional (special) educational needs, it would be difficult to set "relevent and measurable" targets for these, without periodically checking whether they have been acheived (met) even if only for the child itself to be aware of its progress. It is often labled, on IEPs that I've seen recently, as "Outcomes" in a very narrow column with room enough for about six words at best. The review also enables a meeting with parents at least twice a year, which is good enough reason in my view.

Lorraine, my response in being asked to falsly indentify a child as having special educational needs, in order to erroniously boost a schools 'so-called' performance on national league tables, would be (as Brian Hepburn would suggest) to "naff off". (Reason? "I'm a professional"). I never stop being shocked, on behalf of children and parents, even after 35 years of SEN work. Brendan King

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From: maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk
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Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 6.58PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] A tricky question (secondary)

Are you obliged to 'review' SAs?  We have a goodly number of SAs on our SEN 
register, but they have never had reviews.  The only children who are 'reviewed' 
are Statements and Band D.

I'm not saying this is 'right', just saying what happens (or doesn't happen!)

Our SENCo puts on all children who have more than just class based instruction 
or a 'disability' which doesn't necessarily affect their learning but may need 
flagging up to teachers to ensure that they are seated in the appropriate place 
in the classroom.  So this includes mentored children, children withdrawn for 
basic literacy intervention, children with slight hearing impairment, monocular 
vision etc.

I think that the COP is rather vague when it comes to deciding whether or not 
children should be at SA.  It is not surprising that schools try to 'up the 
numbers' when CVA is so important to them.

Maggie

Bill Graham <williamgraham at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: Dear All

Are any of you being "encouraged" to put pupils on the SEN Register to help with 
the school's overall value added for KS3 /4?

I've no real issues providing we're offering something to suggest School Action 
but i'm concerned about how to go about reviews with lots of pupils on the Reg. 
How do large secondaries cope with reviews at SA?

Lorraine

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