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Training for head teachers, teachers and learning support assistants in maintained schools and in special schools which are not maintained schools and for those staff in such schools or in education authority support services with responsibility for children with special educational needs.
Measures to aid the identification and dissemination of Welsh medium special educational needs teaching and assessment materials.
The encouragement of partnerships and the promotion of co-operation for educational purposes between parents, education authorities, schools, health authorities, social services departments 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 and to support the provision of speech and language therapy services.
Measures to encourage the attendance of children with special educational needs at mainstream schools.
Support for the development of links between special schools and mainstream schools.
Support for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties or at risk of developing emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Support and training for governors of maintained schools and for those employed in such schools as teachers and in other capacities, in developing policies for pupils with special educational needs.
Action to identify and put in place parent partnership services for information and advice on special educational needs.
Action to put in place local conciliation arrangements for preventing and resolving disagreements between parents, schools and education authorities regarding special educational needs provision.