{"id":160,"date":"2011-11-17T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=160"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:24","slug":"data-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/data-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen\/","title":{"rendered":"Data: National Audit Office assess support for young adults with SEN"},"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\/data-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen\/\" data-text=\"Data: National Audit Office assess support for young adults with SEN\" 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%2Fdata-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen%2F&#038;text=Data%3A%20National%20Audit%20Office%20assess%20support%20for%20young%20adults%20with%20SEN\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">National Audit Office (NAO)<\/a> have released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/publications\/1012\/special_education_for_young_pe.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> assessing the provision available to young adults who have special educational needs.<\/p>\n<p>The report reveals a <strong>postcode lottery<\/strong> and advises ministers that by providing more appropriate support they can enable young people to <strong>live more independently \u2013 and save money in the long run.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;parents, students and local authorities do not always have the information they need to choose the school or college that best meets the young person&#8217;s needs given the available funding. Assessments of young people&#8217;s needs vary in quality, and local authorities do not always consider the full costs to the public purse of different placement options.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The raw data used to produce the report isn&#8217;t available online, which means it&#8217;s impossible to get an impression of provision nationwide. \u00a0Press officers were reluctant to send me a copy when I called up earlier today, however I&#8217;ve submitted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/oversight_of_special_education_f\/new\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of Information request<\/a>\u00a0through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Do They Know?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetThe National Audit Office (NAO) have released a report assessing the provision available to young adults who have special educational needs. The report reveals a postcode lottery and advises ministers that by providing more appropriate support they can enable young &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/data-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen\/\">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":[25],"tags":[44,84,76,85,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}