Paragraph 12
(a)
Training for governors, headteachers, teachers and special needs assistants in maintained schools and non-maintained special schools and for teachers and special needs assistants employed in education authority support services who have responsibility for children with special educational needs; and
(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, including additional staff time required to strengthen an education authority’s input to annual review meetings.