Special educational needs and additional support

Case studies

• Projecting the future demand for resources
• A pupil database linked to information on pupil progress
• Monitoring the use by school of delegated SEN funding
• Effective joint working between councils and the Local Health Board to secure good health service support for pupils with SEN
• Assessing pupils' progress in relation to their individual targets
• Low delegation with strong partnership working
• Planning specialist provision
• Efficient use of centrally-employed teaching assistants
• Increasing the capability of mainstream schools
• Monitoring the quality of provision in schools
• Taking effective action to increase in-authority special school capacity and reduce the need for more expensive out-of-county provision
• Using benchmarked information to compare expenditure on special schools with that in similar authorities and to inform a review of budget allocation
• Planning to improve special schools as part of the wider programme of modernising schools
• Taking effective action to increase in-authority special school capacity and reduce the need for more expensive out-of-county provision
• Increasing opportunities for inclusion and delivering better value for money through modernising special schools