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Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention. Children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and mental health difficulties. Draft guidance for consultation
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publishers:
- Great Britain. Department of Health, Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 49
- Place of publication:
- London
Draft guidance on reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention for children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and mental health needs. The guidance is designed to help health and care settings and special educational services to adopt a preventative approach to supporting children and young people whose behaviour challenges. It highlights action to improve planning, the assessment and management of risks and the use of evidence-based practice so that restraint is used only where necessary, by trained staff and in line with the law, core values and ethical principles. Sections of the guidance cover: adopting a positive and proactive approach to behaviour; values and principles that should be followed when developing policies and practice on behaviour and the use of restraint; a summary key actions for settings and services, and considerations when using different forms of restraint. The guidance is non-statutory and will apply to health and care settings and special educational settings. The guidance is open to consultation period unity 24 January 2018. (Edited publisher abstract)
Support and aspiration: a new approach to special educational needs and disability: a consultation
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 128p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Children who are disabled or who have special educational needs have disproportionately poor life chances and outcomes. This Green Paper presents for consultation the government's proposals for reform of the system to support children and young people who are disabled or who have special educational needs. The main objectives of the proposals are: to support better life outcomes for young people (with a new approach to identifying special educational needs and a new single assessment process and Education Health and Care Plan by 2014), to give parents confidence by giving them more control (with local authorities and other services to set out a local offer of all services available and the option of a personal budget by 2014), and to transfer powers to professionals on the front line and to local communities (giving parents a choice of school and introducing greater independence to the assessment of children's needs). The proposals and questions for consultation are set out in 5 chapters: early identification and assessment, giving parents control, learning and achieving, preparing for adulthood, and services working together for families. As well as a four-month period of consultation, there will be practical testing in local areas with local pathfinder projects from September 2011.