{"id":366,"date":"2012-01-21T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=366"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:13","slug":"part-2-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/01\/part-2-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2: 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\/2012\/01\/part-2-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen\/\" data-text=\"Part 2: 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%2F2012%2F01%2Fpart-2-national-audit-office-assess-support-for-young-adults-with-sen%2F&#038;text=Part%202%3A%20National%20Audit%20Office%20assess%20support%20for%20young%20adults%20with%20SEN\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Audit Office (NAO)<\/a>\u00a0 released a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/publications\/1012\/special_education_for_young_pe.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0last year which assessed the provision available to young adults who have special educational needs.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/publications\/1012\/special_education_for_young_pe.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, which I wrote about in November, revealed a <strong>postcode lottery<\/strong> and <strong>wasteful spending<\/strong>. However none of the data collected was made publicly available, so I submitted a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/oversight_of_special_education_f\/new\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of Information request<\/a>\u00a0through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Do They Know?<\/a> asking for a copy of the nationwide breakdown compiled by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Audit Office (NAO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The NAO still haven&#8217;t responded to the request, making it overdue by more than 40 working days. Nick Lacy, Head of Policy and Legal Advice at NAO, explained that the FOI involves \u201csome complex datasets\u201d and that the NAO is \u201cconsulting with the organisations who provided us with these datasets.\u201d Their response is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/oversight_of_special_education_f#incoming-245686\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetThe\u00a0National Audit Office (NAO)\u00a0 released a\u00a0report\u00a0last year which assessed the provision available to young adults who have special educational needs. The report, which I wrote about in November, revealed a postcode lottery and wasteful spending. However none of the data &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/01\/part-2-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":[44,170,171,76,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}