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Concern over special needs training

12 January 2009

New rules that insist all special needs co-ordinators must be qualified teachers contradicts Government efforts to reform the school workforce, it has been claimed. A teaching union said moves to get teachers back to focusing on teaching by allowing other staff to take over certain roles is being undermined by this "backward step". Research by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) also found that a third of secondary schools are not ready for new Government regulations that make it mandatory for all special needs co-ordinators to be qualified teachers. The ASCL is calling for ministers to put the new requirement on hold until a Government review of special needs provision, announced last month, is completed. Former schools minister Lord Adonis made it clear last July that, from September, all new special needs co-ordinators (Sencos) must be qualified teachers who have received additional training. He also promised £10 million of Government money to fund the training, with those already in post required to qualify by 2011. The ASCL's survey of 190 secondary schools found that in 36% of schools, the Senco is not a qualified teacher. Copyright © Press Association 2009

 

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