Paragraph 18

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.1, para.30 substituted by Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) Regulations 1999 1999 reg.6(a)
Sch.1, paras.36-39 added by Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) Regulations 1999 1999 reg.6(b)
Sch.1, paras.40-46 added by Education (Education Standards Etc. Grants) Regulations 1999 1999 reg 6

(a)

Training for governors, headteachers, teachers and special needs assistants in maintained schools and non-maintained special schools, and for those staff in education authority support services with responsibility for children with special educational needs;

(b)

the encouragement of partnerships between parents, education authorities, schools and voluntary bodies in order to secure a better education for children with special educational needs, through the use of materials, information technology and additional staff time to strengthen an education authority’s input to annual review meetings;

(c)

measures to encourage the attendance of children with special educational needs at mainstream schools;

(d)

support for the development of links between special schools and mainstream schools; and

(e)

support for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties or at risk of developing emotional and behavioural difficulties.