Policy
Below is a selection of Policy Resources.
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The Government have announced it will exempt local authority
expenditure in relation to SEN services from the academy recoupment
process for 2012-13. This means local authorities will retain their
central funding for SEN services no matter how ...
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In 2010 the Government published two documents which set out a
new strategy for further education and skills, Skills for
Sustainable Growth and Investing in Skills for Sustainable
Growth.
In 2011, New Challenges, New Chances: Next Steps in ...
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In January 2011, the Coalition Government introduced the Health
and Social Care Bill setting out major changes to the NHS.
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On 13 February 2012 the Department for Education (DfE) published
new guidance on Learning Difficulty Assessments. This guidance
replaces the document "Supporting young people with learning
difficulties to participate and progress" - incorpora...
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The Secretary of State for Health launched a new Children's and
Young People's Forum on 26 January 2012. The Forum will operate as
an equivalent to the NHS Future Forum 'listening exercise' for
children and young people. It has been tasked with cre...
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This five-year strategy was developed by the Office of
Disability Issues with the involvement of disabled people and was
published in 2008. Independent living isn't about living on your
own - it's about making sure all disabled people have the same...
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From 2013 the Government is proposing to introduce a new benefit
called Personal Independence Payment for eligible working age
people aged 16 to 64 to replace Disability Living Allowance
(DLA).
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The Department for Education has published a new set of
documents describing all of the Government's policies for young
people aged 13 to 19 in England, within the context of a vision for
a society which will enable all young people to succeed. The...
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The Education and Skills Act 2008 increases the minimum age at
which young people in England can leave learning, requiring them to
continue in education or training until the end of the academic
year in which they turn 17 from 2013 and until th...
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In December 2010, the Secretary of State asked Liz Sayce, the
Chief Executive of RADAR, the UK's largest disability campaigning
organisation, to conduct an independent review of the Government's
specialist disability employment programmes. A key ai...
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