SEN sea change
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SEN sea change
https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/sen-sea-change
As Ofsted notes, investment in special educational needs (SEN) is not delivering value for money (“pound;5bn spend on SEN fails to boost results”, October 16).
There is a better way. Last year, over half of children involved in the Every Child Counts programme we support had been identified by their schools as having SEN. But as a result of an average 20 hours’ one-to-one help from a teacher with one year’s specialist training, two in three pupils achieved level 2 or above in maths at the end of key stage 1. None had been predicted to do so.
Results for Every Child a Reader are similar. If schools redirected a fraction of what they spend on teaching assistant support into specialist teaching, there would be a sea change in outcomes for SEN pupils.
Jean Gross, Director, Every Child a Chance Trust.
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