C.E. Jottings

"School placement and conductive education: the experiences of education administrators"

The following abstract may be found at the Wiley Online Library: Britsh Journal of Special Education. If you want the full article you will have to pay. "A placement at the National Institute of Conductive Education (NICE) in Birmingham for children with motor disorders is strongly preferred over mainstream or special schools by some parents, but it has been noted that this is usually refused following the current statementing process. Although funding constraints have been articulated, Angela Morgan, a Research... Read more →

When all said and done, I doubt we could have done more.

When all said and done, I doubt we could have done more. A school that Ofsted said officially was "Good" and told us unofficially was nearly "Outstanding"; an application that independent readers told us was "compelling" and "impressive", in the end was not sufficient. This morning DfE wrote to say that Paces was not being invited to take our Special Free School application to the final, Pre-Opening, stage for September 2012 . This is a huge disappointment; for us at... Read more →