Inclusive schools inclusion policies

The tribunal will have a copy of the school s SEN/inclusion policy so the school needs to make sure that there is evidence of the policy in practice with regard to the case. 

In 2004 OFSTED produced a report. Special Educational Needs and Disability - Towards Inclusive Schools, which looked at the extent to which the vision of inclusion is becoming a reality in schools. One of its main findings was that The admission and retention of pupils with social and behavioural difficulties continue to test the inclusion policies of schools. ... 

LSU should provide targeted support within the whole-school Behaviour and Inclusion Policy and Strategy. 

To establish an inclusion policy for (a.n. other) school which meets the needs of pupils and parents, sets clear guidance for staff and other agencies, and ensures the school meets its legal requirements in relation to SEN guidance, Every Child Matters and the Children s Services framework. 

Nevertheless, and despite these real concerns, it does seem that some schools are able to work successfully and creatively within this ambivalent legislative system. Such schools manage to be both excellent as measured by standardised tests or external examinations, as well as committed to the continuing development of inclusive policies and practices. Our previous research (Rouse and Florian, 1996)... 

In practice, a relatively high or low proportion of students designated as having special educational needs within a particular school may be as much a function of historical patterns of provision and resourcing, as it is a consequence of inclusion policy, or indeed, inclusive practice. Thus numbers of such students within a school tell us very little about inclusive practices or levels of participation to assume that a higher proportion equates with inclusion is to make a fundamental error in the research or policy analysis process. 

Pupils school records were available, with students and parents consent, for data on National Curriculum (NC) levels, comparisons of special and mainstream timetables, and teachers comments on progress of all kinds, lending a longitudinal aspect to the discussion of some issues. School SEN policies illuminated aspects of the context of inclusion. 

Official SEN policies, which schools are obliged to write under the 1993 Education Act, are not the only articulation of policy. The school s policy is expressed in a variety of ways and through a range of documents. In one partner school, the inclusive ethos was expressed in the production of a document on the role of the support assistant produced collectively by... 

Developing an Inclusive Policy for your School A CSIE Guide, Bristol Centre for Studies... 

Fabio Bertozzi is a scientific collaborator at the Swiss graduate school for public administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne, Switzerland. He has taken part in several national and international research projects in the area of comparative welfare state analysis, with a special focus on pensions and labour market policies. His publications include The Swiss Pension System and Social Inclusion (2007, with Giuliano Bonoli). In Meyer T, Bridgen P and Riedmiiller B (eds.) Private Pensions... 

Ryan, J. (2006). Inclusive leadership and social justice for schools. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 5, 3-17. 

The desire for openness went both ways. Open communications are important and must be allowed—upwards and downwards. While Big Store] says it has an open door policy, it does not—or at least it does not have one that is user friendly. Easily accessible and easily understood channels of open communication are needed between managers and their direct reports. A Big School undergraduate student agreed. Ideally, if Big School is more inclusive, he envisioned that communication lines seem to always be open... which gives a great feeling of acceptance and promotes motivation to accomplish more, believe it or not, because I know there is help along the way if I get stuck. ... 

There is a plethora of policies on education, social welfare and even health in which inclusion is inscribed and since the emergence of New Labour s social inclusion agenda in the UK, it has reached into many areas of life and work. As Wamock (2005) bitterly notes, inclusion is a fundamental concept in government s thinking about schools, leisure, employment, higher education and the arts and performs, not as policy but as ideology. 

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