made about future provision. The Department will continue to work with those LAs until all transfers have been completed appropriately. See what the Minister for Children and Families, Nadhim Zahawi said about the transfers here: Consultation on elective home education On 10 April 2018, the DfE published a consultation on elective home education. The consultation is in two parts. The first one is a call for evidence, covering issues such as the registration of children educated at home, monitoring of home education provision and support for home providers. The second part is seeking comments on draft versions of two DfE guidance documents, one is targeted at local authorities and the other for parents. Please cascade this email to anyone in your organisation or in your networks who may have an interest. Among the points that may be of particular interest in relation to SEN are: Reports of schools encouraging parents to home educate as a response to behavioural or attendance issues The process for a parent wanting to move their a child out of a special school and into home education Material in guidance to authorities and parents about the particular issues that arise if a child being home educated has SEN, complementing the material in the SEND Code of Practice We would welcome your response to the consultation - particularly in relation to children and young people with special educational needs and disability who are home educated. Both parts of the consultation can be found at this link: Supported internships in action Local authorities have recently been funded £9.7m to set up and train more job coaches. We are hoping to gather information about how many supported internships are being delivered, any barriers to delivery, and what more we can do to support their increase. If you deliver supported internships (or are planning to), we would be grateful if you could spare a few minutes to fill in the survey: . If you work in a local authority or supported employment provider, please would you encourage the education providers you work with to fill in this survey? The more information we receive, the better we can plan future support. If you work in a school or college and would like help sourcing a supported internship placement or other work experience for students with SEND on a study programme, help is available from Mencap’s project, funded by DfE.
made about future provision. The Department will continue to work with those LAs until all transfers have been completed appropriately. See what the Minister for Children and Families, Nadhim Zahawi said about the transfers here: Consultation on elective home education On 10 April 2018, the DfE published a consultation on elective home education. The consultation is in two parts. The first one is a call for evidence, covering issues such as the registration of children educated at home, monitoring of home education provision and support for home providers. The second part is seeking comments on draft versions of two DfE guidance documents, one is targeted at local authorities and the other for parents. Please cascade this email to anyone in your organisation or in your networks who may have an interest. Among the points that may be of particular interest in relation to SEN are: Reports of schools encouraging parents to home educate as a response to behavioural or attendance issues The process for a parent wanting to move their a child out of a special school and into home education Material in guidance to authorities and parents about the particular issues that arise if a child being home educated has SEN, complementing the material in the SEND Code of Practice We would welcome your response to the consultation - particularly in relation to children and young people with special educational needs and disability who are home educated. Both parts of the consultation can be found at this link: Supported internships in action Local authorities have recently been funded £9.7m to set up and train more job coaches. We are hoping to gather information about how many supported internships are being delivered, any barriers to delivery, and what more we can do to support their increase. If you deliver supported internships (or are planning to), we would be grateful if you could spare a few minutes to fill in the survey: . If you work in a local authority or supported employment provider, please would you encourage the education providers you work with to fill in this survey? The more information we receive, the better we can plan future support. If you work in a school or college and would like help sourcing a supported internship placement or other work experience for students with SEND on a study programme, help is available from Mencap’s project, funded by DfE.
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