The SEN guidance no longer - School Action Plus and includes ‘Q as a valid value for the SEN Statutory Assessment’ ‘Pupil Provision’ field, but my software allows me to select it still. Most MIS software stills includes this value for local use within schools. On creation of PLASC this should automatically be changed to - School Action Plus or Early Years ‘P Action errors should be reported. Plus’. No Why are there several items called for SEN information? ‘provision’ SEN provision is the fieldname given to under the SEN Code of Practice, ‘provision types’ formerly known as SEN Stage or SEN Status. Four further SEN items detail the provision of support: and Teaching and ‘Curriculum Methods’, ‘Grouping Support’, ‘Specialised and and resources’, ‘Advice Assessment’. Should support staff employed for a one-to-one purpose be included in ? Support staff who are present in a class specifically for one-to-one work should not be included in the Non Teacher count reported for each class in PLASC. They should, however, be counted in the staffing information section of PLASC under support staff. Do school email addresses need to be reported this year? Yes, an email address must be included in the PLASC return. If the school does not have an email address then please enter in order for the file to be accepted into DEWi. ‘N@A’ Please note, however, that the WG may use e-mail addresses submitted in order to contact schools. Census day is approaching and received a new pupil in the I’ve just school. How can I avoid any potential problems? Schools receiving a new pupil need to confirm that their former school is aware that the pupil has left and has ended their registration with them. The receiving school should endeavour to obtain the Common Transfer File (CTF) as soon as possible to aid the pupil’s data collection and inputting needs for that record. The record needs to be pupil’s pupil’s complete prior to producing the return. Guidance on the Common Transfer System can be found in and via the link on the ‘s2s Documentation’ Schools’ Portal (). How do I find out what the valid ethnicity codes are? For further information on the collection and recording of data pupils’ ethnic background please consult the PLASC completion notes and Welsh Government guidance document Circular 006/2009.
The SEN guidance no longer includes ‘Q - School Action Plus and Statutory Assessment’ as a valid value for the ‘Pupil SEN Provision’ field, but my software allows me to select it still. Most MIS software stills includes this value for local use within schools. On creation of PLASC this should automatically be changed to ‘P - School Action Plus or Early Years Action Plus’. No errors should be reported. Why are there several items called ‘provision’ for SEN information? SEN provision is the fieldname given to ‘provision types’ under the SEN Code of Practice, formerly known as SEN Stage or SEN Status. Four further SEN items detail the provision of support: ‘Curriculum and Teaching Methods’, ‘Grouping and Support’, ‘Specialised resources’, and ‘Advice and Assessment’. Should support staff employed for a one-to-one purpose be included in ? Support staff who are present in a class specifically for one-to-one work should not be included in the Non Teacher count reported for each class in PLASC. They should, however, be counted in the staffing information section of PLASC under support staff. Do school email addresses need to be reported this year? Yes, an email address must be included in the PLASC return. If the school does not have an email address then please enter ‘N@A’ in order for the file to be accepted into DEWi. Please note, however, that the WG may use e-mail addresses submitted in order to contact schools. Census day is approaching and I’ve just received a new pupil in the school. How can I avoid any potential problems? Schools receiving a new pupil need to confirm that their former school is aware that the pupil has left and has ended their registration with them. The receiving school should endeavour to obtain the pupil’s Common Transfer File (CTF) as soon as possible to aid the data collection and inputting needs for that pupil’s record. The pupil’s record needs to be complete prior to producing the return. Guidance on the Common Transfer System can be found in and via the ‘s2s Documentation’ link on the Schools’ Portal (). How do I find out what the valid ethnicity codes are? For further information on the collection and recording of pupils’ ethnic background data please consult the PLASC completion notes and Welsh Government guidance document Circular 006/2009.
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