Additional Support Ten Years On:
Successes and good practice
Dr Kate Hannah, HMI
6 March 2015
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What I’m going to talk about…
 Ten years on: what has changed?
 The story so far. Successes and good practice
 Where do we go from here?
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WHAT WERE YOU
DOING IN 2005?
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So what’s changed since 2005?
What difference has the Act made to
outcomes for children and young people?
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The evolving concept of additional
support needs
 The learning environment
 Family circumstances
 Disability or health need
 Social emotional and behavioural factors
[code of practice]
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HMIE 2007 Report on the implementation
of the Act : Key strengths
Key staff in education authorities
have a very good understanding
of the legislation and its aims
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3 minute task
List ten of the fifteen factors giving rise to
additional support needs in the code of
practice.
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Code of practice factors giving rise to additional
support needs (1)
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Motor or sensory impairment
Being bullied
Very able or talented
Having experienced bereavement
Are interrupted learners
Learning disability
Looked after by local authority
Learning difficulty such as dyslexia
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Code of practice factors giving rise to additional
support needs (2)
9. Living with parents abusing substances
10. Have parents with mental health problems
11. Have EAL
12. Are not attending school regularly
13. Have SEBN
14. Are on the CPR
15. Are young carers
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QI 5.3 Meeting learners’ needs
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QI 1.1 Improvements in performance
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Successes: what’s inspection telling us?
 Greater diversity of provision
 Excellent practice in
mainstream
 Improving trend in special
schools.
 Majority of complex needs
schools are very good or
excellent
 Wellbeing indicators
becoming embedded.
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Successes: what’s inspection telling us?
 Increasing use of assistive
technology
 Use of 4 contexts for
learning is engaging pupils
 Schools understand better
the needs of less visible
groups and have systems
for helping and supporting
them
 Improving outcomes for
autism
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What do we know from the Ministerial Reports
about the quality and range of support for
young people with additional support needs?
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“However,
those with 'hidden' additional support
needs, for example those children and young
people who are looked after, who have mental
health difficulties, those in transition and those who
are young carers, continue to require more support.
…. There also continues to be a need to share
practice to support consistency in the identification
of, and provision for, additional support needs.”
Ministerial Report to Parliament 2012
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Getting it Right for Young Carers:
Additional
training
Work on identifying,
assessing,
andfor teachers including
with third sector groups
supporting young carers
Toolkit for secondary schools
Effective tracking and monitoring (Western Isles
Council)
Young carers coordinators in schools (Stirllng
Council)
Multi-agency group support strategy (Fife
Particularly effective: (Calderglen HighCouncil)
School, St Andrew’sSecondary School and
Falkirk High School)
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Young people experiencing transitions
Efficient transfer of high quality information including ways to support
children (Mossvale nursery)
Mentors who support young people after they have left school
(Smithycroft Secondary)
Enhanced transitions from primary/secondary
(Knightswood Secondary)
Partnerships with parents
(Woodlands School)
Transitions teams in schools and authorities
(Leuchars Primary)
Building a network of community partners who work with pupils social
enterprise projects (Kibble Care , independent)
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Looked after children (1)
Suitable skills to enable staff to provide a
nurturing and supportive environment
(Meadowview EECC)
Personalised programmes
to manage change and loss,
and develop their emotional
wellbeing (Aitkenbar Primary)
A nurture environment (Raploch Primary)
Children spoke confidently about range of
support available (St Michael’s Primary)
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Looked after children (2)
High expectations of looked after children’s learning,
attendance and behaviour and monitoring these
systematically.(Kirkintilloch High School)
Enhanced support at
transitions (Thurso High,
Harmeny Trust, Aspire Education)
Making effective use of data
(Wallacehall Academy)
Shared approaches to meeting the
learning and care needs of children
looked after away from home (Northview)
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5 minute task
What improvements do you want to see
over the next ten years and why?
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Next steps
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• Improving outcomes LAC at home (GIRFEC)
• Learning across care and education
• Post 16 transitions for YP with complex needs
• Data about the progress of pupils with complex needs
• Review the impact and effectiveness of CSPs
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Next steps
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• Higher numbers and Individual planning for additional
support (bureaucracy) is there a better way?
• Updating the code of practice
• Legislation to articulate with Children’s Act/CYP Act
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• Share best practice better (ES working on this
/Doran)
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• Review the inspection framework for evaluating the
quality of additional support needs
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Inspirational quotes for the next ten years!
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
(Abraham Lincoln)
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
(William James)
If you’re going through hell…keep going.
(Winston Churchill)
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Additional support needs:
Ten years On
kate.hannah@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk
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