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Non academic tracking in special schools SEND & Inclusion

Non academic tracking in special schools

Developing special educational needs (SEN) pupils is not just about supporting and demonstrating academic progress. Digital technology and pupil development frameworks can be combined to make a difference to every child. Pupils with special educational needs (SEN) often operate well below the national expectations for their age.  But these ‘expectations’ are largely based entirely on academic performance.  Whilst academic frameworks such as P Scales or PIVAT are useful for these pupils they don’t measure the full range of SEN pupils’ development and they don’t provide a basis or foundation to support staff in schools to continuously track their pupils’ progress…
Mime Org
February 16, 2018
Data management
3 steps to get your data ready for SEND inspection School ImprovementSEND & Inclusion

3 steps to get your data ready for SEND inspection

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will look at the information you use to track the performance of your SEND services. Your data should be timely, comprehensive and integrated into the running of your service. You need to be able to understand how you are doing on a regular basis. Inspection reports have identified weaknesses in the management information of SEND services. They highlight that: Where limited data or analysis exists, leaders are unable to identify the impact of their service on children with SEND Some authorities do not have enough information for planning and commissioning of services for…
Mime Org
July 27, 2017
London SEN
LLDD Forecasting Model Workshops SEND & Inclusion

LLDD Forecasting Model Workshops

This Wednesday, along with Yolande Burgess and Glyn Parry of London Councils, we ran a series of four well attended workshops for London Local Authorities to learn more about our Post-16 Forecasting Model for Learners with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (LLDD). Yolande kicked off the sessions by letting us all know that the model has already been used by a number of LAs as part of their Demographic Growth Capital Fund (DGCF) bids which helped bring in £11 million of additional funding into London. The workshops demonstrated some key visualisations from the model (which predicts an increase in demand from…
Steve Preston
July 19, 2012