Perhaps worth reading in full is an interesting SEN blog posting from the National Association of Head Teachers relating mostly to training.
This caught my eye:
"The Autism Education Trust (AET) has rolled out Level 1 of their materials through 7 regional Training Hubs (see www.autismeducationtrust.org.uk/TrainingHubs). Already, over 1,500 people have been trained. Levels 2 & 3 are being piloted at present and will become available in the Autumn. At the same time, the DfE has funded the AET to develop a set of National Standards, which schools can use for self-evaluation, as well as a Competency Framework, which can be used alongside appraisal to identify staff training needs.
Similar Frameworks have been developed by the The Communication Trust (www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk) and the Dyslexia- SpLD Trust (www.dyslexia-SpLDtrust.org.uk) for those who want to move their schools forward in terms of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), or Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD).
My first thought was to wonder why there isn't a "Physical Disabilites Educational Trust" or "Cerebral Palsy Educational Trust" that can win contracts from the DfE to develop training programmes as the AET has?
My second thought was to wonder how it is that there appear to be no training programmes for those who teach children with physical disabilities arising from cerebral palsy or similar neuorological impairments?
Maybe you know the answers?