Policy

Below is a selection of Policy Resources.

  • Academies and funding for SEN specialist services

    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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  • Further Education

    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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  • Health and Social Care Bill

    In January 2011, the Coalition Government introduced the Health and Social Care Bill setting out major changes to the NHS.

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  • Learning Difficulty Assessments guidance for local authorities

    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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  • New Children’s and Young People’s Forum

    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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  • ODI Independent Living Strategy

    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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  • Personal Independence Payment

    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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  • Positive for Youth: A new approach to cross-government policy for young people aged 13 to 19

    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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  • Raising the participation age

    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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  • Sayce review: Getting in, staying in and getting on: Disability employment support fit for the future

    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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