Reform of the special educational needs (SEN) system
What research and sources of information were used to draft government policies on SEN which have been published in the last 2 years.
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- Date requested: 2 January 2013
- Date responded: 22 January 2013
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I would like to know what research and sources of information were used to draft government policies on special educational need which have been published in the last 2 years and which have been implemented in 2012 or are expected will be implemented in the next few years.
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In developing SEN policy in the last 2 years we have drawn on publications listed in the bibliography to the , and also some of the materials listed in bibliographies to documents cited within the green paper.
Since the publication of the green paper there have been a number of other pieces of research that the department has published that are influencing decisions around the implementation of the reforms. These are:
鈥業ndividual budgets for families with disabled children: final evaluation report鈥� 鈥� the initial period reported in 2011, are available online.
This was then followed by an extended year of evaluation.
The national evaluation of 鈥楢chievement for all national evaluation鈥� was published in 2011.
The evaluation of the impact of short breaks on families with disabled children over time. A number of reports are available including:
- 鈥楾he impact of short breaks on families with a disabled child over time: the second report from the quantitative study鈥�
- 鈥楾he impact of short breaks on families with a disabled child: report 1 of the quantitative phase鈥�
- 鈥楢 report on themes emerging from qualitative research into the impact of short break provision on families with disabled children鈥�
- 鈥楾he impacts of short break provision on disabled children and families: an international literature review鈥�
It would also be worth noting the Better communication research programme (BCRP), which was a 3 year programme of research around speech, language and communication needs and was published in December 2012.
The may also be of interest.
We are expecting a larger research report of the pathfinder evaluation to be published this in autumn 2013, concluding the first phase of the evaluation. This should be available online once published.