Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act
2004
Child has additional support needs if the child:
• is likely to be unable, without the provision
of additional support, to benefit from school
education.
Additional support means:
• provision which is additional to, or
otherwise different from, that generally
available to those of the same age.
Inclusion
ASL/GIRGEC Interface
What is GIRFEC?
–Meets the needs and promotes the well-being and
potential of all children.
What is the ASL Act?
–Aims to ensure that all children and young people
with additional support needs receive the necessary
help to ensure they benefit from school education.
Inclusion
ASL/GIRGEC Interface
• Seek to enable all to become:
– successful learners
– confident individuals
– effective contributors and
– responsible citizens.
Curriculum for Excellence -
successful learners
confident individuals
with
•enthusiasm and motivation for learning
•determination to reach high standards of achievement
•openness to new thinking and ideas
with
•self respect
•a sense of physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
•secure values and beliefs
•ambition
and able to
•use literacy, communication and numeracy skills
•use technology for learning
•think creatively and independently
•learn independently and as part of a group
•make reasoned evaluations
•link and apply different kinds of learning in
new situations
Inclusion
and able to
•relate to others and manage themselves
•pursue a healthy and active lifestyle
•be self aware
•develop and communicate their own beliefs
and view of the world
•live as independently as they can
•assess risk and take informed decisions
•achieve success in different areas of activity
To enable all young
people to become
responsible citizens
effective contributors
with
•respect for others
•commitment to participate responsibly in
political, economic, social and cultural life
with
•an enterprising attitude
•resilience
•self-reliance
and able to
•develop knowledge and understanding of
the world and Scotland’s place in it
•understand different beliefs and cultures
•make informed choices and decisions
•evaluate environmental, scientific and
technological issues
•develop informed, ethical views of complex
issues
and able to
•communicate in different ways and in
different settings
•work in partnership and in teams
•take the initiative and lead
•apply critical thinking in new contexts
•create and develop
•solve problems
Inclusion
ASL/GIRGEC Interface
• Do the Principles of ASL and GIRFEC fit
together?
GIRFEC – Principles
• Meet the needs of all children in a
proportionate and timely way.
ASL
• Focuses on children’s learning in the
broadest sense.
• Sits within the overall GIRFEC approach
Inclusion
Planning
Do we need a Coordinated Support Plan
(CSP) and a GIRFEC Plan
– CSP is a statutory plan – statutory
requirement to prepare one.
– Where there is multi-agency intervention
GIRFEC principles point to having a single
planning process.
HEALTH PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
CHILD PROTECTION PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
LAC CARE PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
GIRFEC PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
ACTIONS
ASP/CSP
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
ACTIONS
RESOURCES
HEALTH PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
ACTIONS
RESOURCES
COORDINATOR
CHILD PROTECTION PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
COORDINATOR
ACTIONS
PARTNERS
RESOURCES
LAC CARE PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
COORDINATOR
ACTIONS
PARTNERS
RESOURCES
OUTCOME
REVIEW
GIRFEC PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
COORDINATOR
ACTIONS
PARTNERS
RESOURCES
OUTCOME
REVIEW
SERVICE INFO
ASP/CSP
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
COORDINATOR
SERVICE INFO
ACTIONS
PARTNERS
LEGISLATIVE
ISSUES
RESOURCES
OUTCOME
REVIEW
HEALTH PLAN
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
COORDINATOR
SERVICE INFO
ACTIONS
PARTNERS
LEGISLATIVE
ISSUES
RESOURCES
OUTCOME
REVIEW
PERFORMANCE
MONITORING
WHAT’S IN A PLAN – ANY PLAN?
ANY CHILD’S PLAN
PERSONAL INFO
REASON
VIEWS
ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS & RISKS
ACTIONS
RESOURCES
COORDINATOR
SERVICE INFO
PARTNERS
LEGISLATIVE
ISSUES
OUTCOME
REVIEW
PERFORMANCE
MONITORING
Single Planning Process
CSP – Criteria Section 2 of the ASL Act.
CSP – Part of the one planning process.
CSP Regulations – plan – reg 3;
disclosure of the plan – reg10.
How does the one planning process come together? Steps:
• Manual process at first
• Revised eCare model 2011
• Electronic CSP - bring into single planning orbit.