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SEBDA News - Winter 2004 Issue 5

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  • p.1 Responding to allegations guidance; Every Child Matters; Change for Children; Politicians and 'pupils from hell'.
  • p.3 Chairman's report.; Director's notes.
  • p.4 News: New ministers at DfES; fair sharing round of excluded pupils.Tory 'Turnaround Schools'.
  • p.5 Focus on CAMHS and Education: National Service Framework Standard 9: Cynthia Fletcher.
  • p.7 Achieving Gold: the Team-Teach approach to behaviour intervention and as last resort - physical restraint - helps a Sheffield school Dean Cotton and Edd Sellman report.
  • p.9 DfES Proposals for dealing with allegations against staff: we take a detailed look at this important document.
  • p.12 Allegations and the Press; Flirtatious students link to fear of abuse allegations, says new book.
  • p.13 E-referral and data sharing: Crack interagency information sharing dilemmas by using secure internet technology, says Alan Robinson of b2bNet.
  • p.15 Recently from the press: a wide-ranging miscellany includes snippets on behaviour is better in English schools according to parents: alleged crisis in Scottish schools' discipline; FFI spreads - Staged Intervention/BCos etc in 23 Scottish Local Authorities; OfSTED says 10,000 children are missing; growing mental health needs of youth; inclusion and disaffection; exclusion panels - do we need them?; teacher stress;ASBOs; diet and behaviour;soaring use of drug treatments; Scots join Welsh in rejecting national testing at 14.
  • p.19 Every Child Matters: Change for Children. We take a detailed look at this important new document and its related guidance.
  • p.20 ECM Outcomes Framework.
  • p.22 Nominations sought for Teaching Awards.
  • p.23 The Press and Child Mental Health.
  • p.24 Nurture Group Network wishes to go its own way; Marjorie Boxall remembered.
  • p.25 Carry on Canoeing, says HMCI and Scottish Education Ministers; the outdoor activity debate in the news again.
  • p.26 Anthony Ward describes the success of a recent field trip in the Dales.
  • p.29 Biking to better behaviour and health: the Education Through Cycling programme at Wandle Valley School, S. London.
  • p.29 Inter-agency work and Connexions: worrying research findings for JRF.
  • p.30 SEBDA Professional Development: Ted Cole and Sue Panter report on the SEBDA Certificated Course, the Adrian Faupel Roadshow and regional training events (including a detailed feature on training by Billy O'Neill on Instrumental Enrichment and SEBD).
  • p.33 Time trends in adolescent well-being and other recent developments.
  • p.33 New OU Course in behaviour.
  • p.34 Social Scene: Cynthia Cross describes and discusses the Children Act 2004;claims that the UK plc continues to abuse children's rights; NSF for Children Standard 9; Common Core Skills and Knowledge for the Children's Workforce.
  • p.38 Regional Round-up.