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Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: general guidelines
- Author:
- QUALIFICATIONS AND CURRICULUM AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority/Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These guidelines support the planning, development and implementation of the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties. They draw on effective practice across a range of schools and can be used in mainstream and special primary schools, specialised schools and independent schools. They also provide support to the range of services that work with these schools.
The education of pupils with medical needs
- Author:
- OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION (OFSTED)
- Publisher:
- OFSTED
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report outlines the findings from inspections of provision for pupils with medical needs carried out by Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI) in 12 local education authorities (LEAs) between September 2002 and March 2003. The purpose of this Ofsted survey was to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing provision.The twelve LEAs inspected were: Bury, Coventry, Dorset, East Riding, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Kingston upon Thames, Leicester, Southwark, Swindon and Wirral. HMI held meetings with heads of service and scrutinised documentation.They made visits to over 50 different providers, which included hospital special schools, adolescent psychiatric units, pupil referral units, hospital wards, home tuition services, mainstream schools and other units.They observed lessons and examined work in schools, pupil referral units, hospitals, adolescent and other units and in pupils’ homes.They obtained additional evidence from discussions with staff, parents, pupils, some health professionals (mostly in adolescent psychiatric units), and teachers in mainstream and special schools.
Services for children with learning disability: international perspectives on residential child care
- Editor:
- BARLOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- University of Strathclyde. Centre for Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Includes papers on: services for children with learning difficulties; between the ideal and the reality; exploring the relationship of the child educator; the Camphill Diploma Course in Curative Education; respite care in the Ottawa Rotary Home; a holistic approach at the Linn Moor Special Residential School; twenty two years of residential care for special needs children; education, care and therapy at the St. Margaret's School; the network family programme in Tasmania; and putting the concept of quality of care into operation.