Pointless because ECHP will be taken in kids next review and schools and local authorities never follow them law doesn’t apply to them just us plebs.
You have to question whether there are more people with additional specific needs or whether we are building a society that is so difficult for people to function in that more feel the need for adjustments.
The whole system seems completely unsustainable with the way the costs are growing year on year and it’s probably already having an impact on council and education budgets.
Oh no, more children getting support. /s
Screw people acting like SEND is a meal ticket, it’s a vital system for countless children.
We are currently in the diagnosis generation. Endless numbers of people pursuing diagnoses for kids that do not need it. Self fulfilling prophecy?
An overwhelming number of children now require send support which I believe is diluting the support children with profound barriers to education
In terms of education, we will need a timetable revolution for this to have a meaningful effect. Teaching and meeting the needs of an increasing proportion of students with SEND is a real challenge.
As a teacher it is becoming cognitively impossible for I to even track the SEND needs of all my students. E.g out of approx 1000 students in our school, around 300 have SEND and I teach over 150 of those students. Their ‘learning support passports’ get updated by our TA team regularly so I often receive around 2-3 emails a day with updates — my record is 15 updates in one day. Literally not possible with 10% PPA time to plan high quality lessons and navigate a SEND database that is based on *per student* — forcing me to manually search through 150 students is simply not sustainable.
One in ten feels like a hell of a lot. What used to be a handful of people with special needs per year group is becoming a handful per class.
And yet apparently we’re *still* underdiagonsing certain conditions, so what’s the true figure that it should be? One in five?
I don’t think that’s possible for teachers to account for while giving the rest of the class adequate support as well. We’d need a level of added funding that would make the most ardent MMT advocate blush.
At this point the state needs to dramatically and rapidly;
-Expand schools for those with special needs.
-Concentrate SEND help there.
-Remove all but the most basic assistance for students not attending special needs schools.
-Increase teacher training bursary and salary in order to lock in more teaching staff.
The idea that 5-10% of students somehow have special educational needs is, frankly, statistically nonsense. And if somehow 1/10 children actually do have special needs, then there needs to be an emergency inquiry in to why such a dramatically high % of children all of a sudden have these conditions.
If these figured are real and not fraud, why are we not treating it as a public health emergency?
More stars appeared as telescope technology improved .
A cynical person would wander whether the welfare claims were also flying in as well. Strange theres this mass outbreak, truly a modern phenomenon.
Why is Britain so broke, sick and disabled?
Or is it just a self fulfilling prophecy as we diagnose and label people with conditions.
We need an overhaul of how we educate people i was failing English at school because I had learning disabilities and autism but was just ignored and not really helped and would of likely struggled in life. But lucky my parents had enough money to send me to specialist private school for a couple of years and I got good GCSES leading to A levels then a Masters and now work a high paying job.
If my parents weren’t able to do that I would likely be struggling in society. We need to make sure kids are given support and chances to become functioning members of society.
Build Special Needs schools and watch the number of parents putting in SEND applications absolutely plummet. When the cost of a diagnosis is going to a school with the ‘weird’ kids let’s see what happens.
It’s actually less support for the ones that really need it because it is being diluted by sharp elbowed parents sometimes desperate to find a diagnosis which explains their child’s behaviour rather than looking at their own parents skills (or lack of).
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Pointless because ECHP will be taken in kids next review and schools and local authorities never follow them law doesn’t apply to them just us plebs.
You have to question whether there are more people with additional specific needs or whether we are building a society that is so difficult for people to function in that more feel the need for adjustments.
The whole system seems completely unsustainable with the way the costs are growing year on year and it’s probably already having an impact on council and education budgets.
Oh no, more children getting support. /s
Screw people acting like SEND is a meal ticket, it’s a vital system for countless children.
We are currently in the diagnosis generation. Endless numbers of people pursuing diagnoses for kids that do not need it. Self fulfilling prophecy?
An overwhelming number of children now require send support which I believe is diluting the support children with profound barriers to education
In terms of education, we will need a timetable revolution for this to have a meaningful effect. Teaching and meeting the needs of an increasing proportion of students with SEND is a real challenge.
As a teacher it is becoming cognitively impossible for I to even track the SEND needs of all my students. E.g out of approx 1000 students in our school, around 300 have SEND and I teach over 150 of those students. Their ‘learning support passports’ get updated by our TA team regularly so I often receive around 2-3 emails a day with updates — my record is 15 updates in one day. Literally not possible with 10% PPA time to plan high quality lessons and navigate a SEND database that is based on *per student* — forcing me to manually search through 150 students is simply not sustainable.
One in ten feels like a hell of a lot. What used to be a handful of people with special needs per year group is becoming a handful per class.
And yet apparently we’re *still* underdiagonsing certain conditions, so what’s the true figure that it should be? One in five?
I don’t think that’s possible for teachers to account for while giving the rest of the class adequate support as well. We’d need a level of added funding that would make the most ardent MMT advocate blush.
At this point the state needs to dramatically and rapidly;
-Expand schools for those with special needs.
-Concentrate SEND help there.
-Remove all but the most basic assistance for students not attending special needs schools.
-Increase teacher training bursary and salary in order to lock in more teaching staff.
The idea that 5-10% of students somehow have special educational needs is, frankly, statistically nonsense. And if somehow 1/10 children actually do have special needs, then there needs to be an emergency inquiry in to why such a dramatically high % of children all of a sudden have these conditions.
If these figured are real and not fraud, why are we not treating it as a public health emergency?
More stars appeared as telescope technology improved .
A cynical person would wander whether the welfare claims were also flying in as well. Strange theres this mass outbreak, truly a modern phenomenon.
Why is Britain so broke, sick and disabled?
Or is it just a self fulfilling prophecy as we diagnose and label people with conditions.
We need an overhaul of how we educate people i was failing English at school because I had learning disabilities and autism but was just ignored and not really helped and would of likely struggled in life. But lucky my parents had enough money to send me to specialist private school for a couple of years and I got good GCSES leading to A levels then a Masters and now work a high paying job.
If my parents weren’t able to do that I would likely be struggling in society. We need to make sure kids are given support and chances to become functioning members of society.
Build Special Needs schools and watch the number of parents putting in SEND applications absolutely plummet. When the cost of a diagnosis is going to a school with the ‘weird’ kids let’s see what happens.
It’s actually less support for the ones that really need it because it is being diluted by sharp elbowed parents sometimes desperate to find a diagnosis which explains their child’s behaviour rather than looking at their own parents skills (or lack of).