OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND
Now that Spring is promised
And a tsunami expected
Thanks to Norman Perrin for
again drawing attention to the promised forthcoming tsunami about to
overwhelm 'special educational needs', through the words of Special
Needs Jungle –
We all know individuals in SEN departments have often been gits in the past. Hideous, scheming, uncaring, colluding, anti-parent and so it seemed, anti-children too. Quite possibly many employees are still carrying on as if a tsunami of change isn’t about to sweep them out of their office-standard swivel chairs.
But change is a-coming and if your SEN department is to get with the programme (because of course, it has no option) then those within who cannot change their ways may find themselves moved elsewhere or out altogether. They MUST work with parents and families in the new system. It’s going to be the law.
http://www.specialneedsjungle.com/sen-statementing-questions-answered/
You'd better believe it
If you have any involvement
with Conductive Education for children and young people in England,
as service-user or service provider (yes, the latter includes
conductors) then presumably you are already struggling to get your
head around this and take part actively in the forthcoming changes.
There will be nowhere to
hide. Conductive Education stands close to the edge, on a low
shoreline, and there are no hills to climb.
Of
course, you might say, there have been mega-radical revision of
'special educational needs' before – not least being the one that
introduced the wretched notion of 'special educational needs' into
law in the first place – but to a large degree the same people just
continued doing much the same things to the much same children and
families. Nothing substantial changes, just the rhetoric. On the
basis of precedent, you might feel that much the same will happen
this time round.
An
ominous sign is that 'special educational needs' and much that it
brought with it, have remained unquestioned. Ultimately, how can good
law and good administrative practice be developed on such a shaky
philosophical foundation?
One
is promised fundamental change. In 2013-14 new factors in favour of
this include ever-tightening centralisation and micro-management of
the system, and ever-increasing financial straights. Two or three
years should be enough to tell how things are turning out for
everyone – and specifically whether this will prove a liberation
for English CE, or the final straw.
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