{"id":103,"date":"2011-11-13T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=103"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","slug":"investigating-the-special-education-system-1-inclusion-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/investigating-the-special-education-system-1-inclusion-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating the special education system 1: inclusion statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/investigating-the-special-education-system-1-inclusion-statistics\/\" data-text=\"Investigating the special education system 1: inclusion statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2011%2F11%2Finvestigating-the-special-education-system-1-inclusion-statistics%2F&#038;text=Investigating%20the%20special%20education%20system%201%3A%20inclusion%20statistics\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>More and more attention has been paid to children who have special educational needs (SEN) after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofsted.gov.uk\/resources\/special-educational-needs-and-disability-review\" target=\"_blank\">Ofsted\u2019s report<\/a>\u00a0last year criticised teachers for overusing the term. But fewer investigations have focused on the experiences of children who have the most severe learning difficulties, those who have been granted statements of special education needs. We want to investigate the educational opportunities available to such students.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Education publishes datasets detailing the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/rsgateway\/DB\/SFR\/s001007\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">numbers of statemented SEN pupils across local authorities and the types of schools which they attend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I plan to analyse this information in detail by looking at the size and specific types of specialist schools available in different areas \u2013 and\u00a0<strong>the impact which this may have on local authorities\u2019 attitudes to inclusion.\u00a0<\/strong>As well as posting updates to this site I\u2019ll be blogging in more detail about SEN statistics\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learnsen.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have experience of the special education system? Please help me investigate. I&#8217;m especially keen to talk to people from different regions.\u00a0Let me know your thoughts by commenting or emailing me directly at ratcliffe.rc[at]<a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetMore and more attention has been paid to children who have special educational needs (SEN) after\u00a0Ofsted\u2019s report\u00a0last year criticised teachers for overusing the term. But fewer investigations have focused on the experiences of children who have the most severe learning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/investigating-the-special-education-system-1-inclusion-statistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}