A number of challenges remain with embedding additional learning needs reforms across Wales.
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The current system is far from perfect, but it cannot be removed without robust reform.
The solutions start with making mainstream education genuinely inclusive and properly funded.
Inclusion cannot mean simply placing pupils with educational needs and disabilities in the same room with their peers.
Young people in alternative provision question their education but want challenge.
Reading is where many bilingual pupils with special educational needs and disabilities fall the furthest behind.
Our study found that a significant amount of teachers’ lesson time is spent on low-level and serious behaviour interruptions.
Special educational needs support is administered by local authorities – and they are struggling to cope.
Inclusive education in Scotland is understood broadly to encompass an extensive range of issues that go beyind disability.
An overreliance on teaching assistants without specialised support might be one reason for the continuing achievement gap.
Across the UK and Ireland, there are far fewer places available in specialist schools and classes for the number of children identified with needs significant enough to warrant a place.
Introducing a more detailed assessment process in schools would help bridge the gap between education and specialist services.
Prison education needs serious improvement.
Too often, disabled children are not afforded the same opportunities as their peers
There is substantial evidence from across the world that youth mental health has substantially deteriorated.
The current school curriculum and assessment system is extremely difficult for pupils with special educational needs to navigate.
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Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice, University of Hull
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Durham University
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Lecturer in Sport Sociology , University of Lincoln
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Assistant Professor in Educational Inclusion, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology in Education, University of Bristol
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Director of Research and Scholarship, Stranmillis University College, A College of Queen's University, Belfast, Queen's University Belfast
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Assistant Professor in Inclusive Education, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor in Inclusive Pedagogy, University of South Wales
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Reader in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs, University of Exeter
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Professor of Education, University of the West of Scotland
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Senior Lecturer - Criminology, University of the West of England
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Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of Manchester
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Manchester