[senco-forum] Dyslexia

You are right Jean -- the CoP for England is the same as for Wales. What is different is different LAs -- this sounds like a locally devised funding formula -- to arange an amount of audited funding to individual schools in accordance with the School Action needs of assessed?SEN, School Action, level?children.

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There?may be? LAs Bands A, B, C, E,?D, E, F, and even?G. Some LAs have, even, a blanket formulated?band for statemented chidren, which has the potential for?LAs to be in breach of duty, as each individual statemented child must have its needs individually assessed during stautory assessment and arranged and funded in accordance with the quantified provision specified?in the statement. So block funding -- delegated according to locally devised bands --?may not be flexible enough to sufficiently fund all of a statemented child's needs. Such banding formula must be "notional" for statemented children and raised accordingly if required to fund all of the statemented childs needs sufficiently.

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To know what each local band provides in terms of funds -- one should get in touch?wth the assessment officers or EPs of the particular LA.??They are not "national" or statutorally / or Code of Practice devised. Brendan King

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From: Jean Dowding 

To: Maggie Downie 

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Sent: Mon, Nov 5 2:59 PM

Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Dyslexia - what are the scores on the doors?

The CoP for Wales does not have Bands, just School Action, School Action  Plus and Statementing.  I did not realise that England was so different.    Jean    S Wales             It's quite a while since I read the Code of Practice and I don't deal with  > SEN matters daily, so this may be a faulty overview. Others will correct  > me if I'm wildly wrong!  >  > But, as I understand it, the 'categories' of SEN fall into a series of  > Bands, A - F (or is it G?).  Children are allocated to Bands A - C by the  > school Senco, following guidance from the Code of Practice (COP).  Band A  > are children with a 'need' which has to be recorded, but may not  > necessarily need any action by the school (because they are academically  > fine) apart from awareness of things such as seating arrangements (for  > impaired hearing, monocular vision etc.).  Band B seems to be children at  > School Action (SA), where children are differentiated for within class  > and/ or receiving interventions for some learning difficulties.  Band C  > are at SA+ - outside agencies are involved.  Below Band C evidence has to  > go to the LA Inclusion Panel that children need support over and above SA+  > and receive extra funding.  Children at Band D do not have statements, but  > undergo the Annual Review process.  Below Band D children are usually  > statemented.  >  > This is how it seems to work at our school - from what I've seen of the  > COP it seems to be less than straightforward to interpret and the  > Inclusion Panel has been known to make some odd decisions... it is very  > noticeable that our LA issues far fewer statements than it did a few years  > ago - particularly for SPLD.  >  >>From discussions I've seen on this list it seems that there are many grey  >> areas...  >  > Maggie  >  > chris white chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: I'm sorry to show my  > ignorance. But what is Band D please?  > Chris  >  > -----Original Message-----  > From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk  > [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Maggie Downie  > Sent: 05 November 2007 17:08  > To: Stuart Lucas; senco-forum new  > Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Dyslexia - what are the scores on the doors?  >  > Do you mean 'statemented or Band D' for dyslexia', or just assesed by the  > edpsych as having SPLD (Specific Learning Difficulty).  Dylexia is not a  > word that is used 'officially' in our LA and children certainly do not get  > statements for SPLD now as readily as the LA has handed them out in the  > past.  The most they are likely to get is a Band D for Moderate Learning  > Difficulties (MLD).  >  > On the Band D for MLD criteria we would have about 2- 3% at our school.  > (about 3 -4 Band Ds in each year group of 150)  >  > Maggie  >  > Stuart Lucas  wrote: My Director of Studies is asking  > the following question:  >  >  >  > "what are the current percentage of primary and secondary school pupils  > diagnosed as dyslexic by whatever psychological, psychometric or  > physiological means?"  >  >  >  > Any ideas?  >  >  >  > I have heard the 'figure out there' is 10% - but where did that come  > from?  >  > Will ask Scottish Executive for their figures -  >  >  >  > Is Jean out there? - any ideas?  >  > Tks  >  > Stuart  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  > ---------------------------------  >  For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this  > month.  >  >  >  >  >  >  > ---------------------------------  >  For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this  > month.  >  > ______________________________________________  > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence  > http://www.netintelligence.com/email  >  >        

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