[senit] Select Cttee Enquiry about SEN asst and funding.

I imagine you are aware of the following picked up from the senco  
forum  , which I thought would be important to you.

Geoff

  Posted by

"K Wedell" <k.wedell at btinternet.com>

In case you do not already know, the  House of Commons Education and
Skills  Select Committee are calling for submissions about the
separation of assessment of need from funding of provision. This is a
follow-up to their recent report and the government's response to it.
They want written submissions by June 25th relating to 4 questions:

~ How might assessment of special educational needs be undertaken other
than by the relevant local authority without the establishment of a new
separate agency for the purpose?

~ How might local accountability for assessment be maintained if
the local authority does not directly undertake the assessment?

~ What other issues need to be addressed in order to make the
separation of assessment and provision effective?

~ What models from other countries could usefully be drawn on to
demonstrate how separation of assessment and funding for special
educational needs might be achieved?

Full details of the press notice are on at

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/10412

(this is my link found by google - the original which doesn't work was

http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/ 
education_and_skills_committee

(Geoff)

Kind regards - Klaus Wedell