[senco-forum] SENCos MUST be on the SMT?

Can anyone point me in the right direction of the

Mark wrote:

>Can anyone point me in the right direction of the
>legislation/guidance/whatever please?

The Education and Inspections Act 2006 says:

173 Special educational needs co-ordinators
In section 317 of EA 1996 (duties of governing body or LEA in relation to 
pupils
with special educational needs) after subsection (3) insert—
“(3A) The governing body of a community, foundation or voluntary school or
a maintained nursery school shall designate a member of the staff at the
school (to be known as the “special educational needs co-ordinator”) as
having responsibility for co-ordinating the provision for pupils with
special educational needs.
(3B) Regulations may—
(a) require the governing bodies of schools falling within
subsection (3A) to ensure that special educational needs coordinators
have prescribed qualifications or prescribed
experience (or both), and
(b) confer on the governing bodies of those schools other functions
relating to special educational needs co-ordinators.”

According to the E&I Act 2006 implementation chart at:

<http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/educationandinspectionsact/>

Regs should come into force in October, but draft Regs should have been 
issued for consultation in Jan, and have not yet been. John Perryman at the 
DfES says that they are delayed, and doesn't know exactly when the draft 
will be out, but it is hoped that the implementation date can be kept to.

Best wishes

Chris