C.E. Jottings

Charting a way through the Children and Families Act 2014

A great, simple way to understand aspects of the C&F Act 2014 visually has been produced by the always excellent Special Needs Jungle (in passing - Debs Aspland of SNJ spoke at Paces Seminars last year) in a joint project with the Department for Education. Four flow-charts have been produced, each covering a different aspect of the legislation. You can read what Tania Tirraoro, who created the charts, has to say about each of them, via the links: The new... Read more →

Special Education reforms: opportunities for conductive education in the UK

Andrew Sutton left a Comment on my recent blog posting "Some SEN Statementing questions answered by Special Needs Jungle" in the form of a link to a posting on his own blog where, after leading in with a clip from Tania Tirraoro in the SNJ posting, Andrew ponders the coming "tsunami" of change, how real the change might be, what it might mean for conductive education in the UK and our readiness for it. For everyone in conductive education, Andrew... Read more →

Some SEN Statementing questions answered by Special Needs Jungle.

Best just go straight to Tania Tirraoro's post on Special Needs Jungle to read all the answers in full. Lots of good advice, too. Here are the questions, with some single word answers: Can I still apply for a statement now? Yes Is it better to wait for the new system? No Will my statemented child be moved to an EHCP right away after Sept 2014? No What’s this about a key worker and will we get one? Maybe. Will... Read more →