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Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland ) Act 2004

RITES seminarWednesday 3 February 2010

Maria Walker, ASL/EAL Co-ordinator

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Setting the Scene

• Relevant to all children in education

• Introduction of Co-ordinated Support Plan

(CSP)

• New statutory rights for parents and young

people

• Mediation, Dispute Resolution & Tribunals

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Terminology

• Additional Support Needs (ASN) – broad concept

• Additional Supports

• Planned Outcomes/Learning Outcomes

• Barriers to Learning

• Multiple/Complex Needs

• Additional Support Plan (ASP) or

Co-ordinated Support Plan (CSP)

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Additional Support Needs Definition

‘A child or young person has additional support needs … where, for whatever reason, the child or young person is, or is likely to be, unable without the provision of additional support to benefit from school education provided or to be provided for the child or young person’.

Education (Additional Support for Learning)(Scotland )

Act 2004 s1(1) and (2)

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The Scope of Additional Support Needs: Broad Themes

• Learning Environment

• Family Circumstances

• Disability or Health Need

• Social and Emotional Factors

• Individual Differences

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Concept of Additional Support

Additional support is …

‘provision which is additional to, or otherwise different from the educational provision made generally for children, or, as the case may be, young persons of the same age in schools (other than special schools) under the management of the education authority for the area to which the child or young person belongs’

Education (Additional Support for Learning)(Scotland )Act 2004 s3(a)

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Rights of Parents and Young People

• To request whether a child has Additional

Support Needs or needs a CSP

• Request specific type of assessment

• Make use of mediation and dispute

resolution

• Be asked for their views and have them

taken into account and noted in a CSP

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Staged Intervention

Stage 3Resources external to

establishment but within education services

(ASP)

Stage 2Within establishment

Stage 1In class / early years’ group resources

Stage 4Multi-AgencyInvolvement (ASP/CSP)