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Additional Support for Learning Review Action Plan – Update
An updated Additional Support for Learning (ASL) action plan, setting out the progress made since November 2022, to deliver against the recommendations made by the review of implementation of additional support for learning
Theme 4: Resources
No actions have been completed.
Ongoing Actions
| ASL Review Recommendation | Actions | Status of Action | Progress Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 Audit Scotland | 4.1.1 Audit Scotland must use the key themes in this report and the associated findings from Audit Scotland’s audit of educational outcomes to inform the scope of their national performance audit on outcomes for children and young people with additional support needs. | Ongoing | Audit Scotland have recently confirmed that they will undertake an audit of Additional Support for Learning. |
| 4.1.2 This must include assessing spend on additional support for learning across services, its impact on attainment and outcomes for children and young people at all stages; highlighting good practice and gaps. | Ongoing | See action 4.4.1 progress update | |
| 4.2 Role of Grant Aided Special Schools | 4.2.1 The Grant Aided Special Schools and three national centres must use the opportunities that arise from the commissioning strand of the Doran Review to consider how their specialist expertise (including in prevention and de-escalation) can be developed to be complementary to statutory mainstream and specialist provision in order to support improvement in the experiences and outcome of children and young people with additional support needs. | Ongoing | The implementation of the Doran review is ongoing and will complete in 2029. The links between the ASL Project Board and the National Strategic Commissioning Group are being strengthened, as momentum for the Doran Review work grows, to ensure that opportunities to create links across these two workstreams are implemented. Research into the current education provision for children and young people with complex additional support needs was published in September 2023. The research provided an insight into the strengths and challenges of current provision and is informing the next stage of the strategic commissioning of services to support children and young people's learning. A trial of up to 6 special school placements of depute head teachers from mainstream provision is being developed to run in the 2024-25 school year. The evaluation of the trial will inform future decisions regarding the inclusion of a special school placement element to existing teacher leadership programmes and the potential for the opportunity to be made available to a broader range of the education workforce. The Education Scotland hosted Into Headship modules will be reviewed in 2024-25 to consider enhanced content on additional support needs and the legislative roles of being a headteacher. Scotland Excel Frameworks are used by all Local Authorities, these include consideration of impacts on all protected characteristics. All Local Authorities commission services locally, and they all have Commissioning Strategies. The UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act will also ensure children’s rights are upheld. |
Contact
Email: supportinglearners@gov.scot
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