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SEBDA News - Winter 2006/07 Issue 11

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  • p.1 HMCI condemns wrong usage of PRUs; Care Matters; The new E&I Act; the Welsh National Behaviour and Attendance Review
  • p.3 Chairman's Report; Director's Notes
  • p.4 SEBDA Education Officer's report: John Visser reports on Ofsted on healthy schools, KS4 flexibility, extended services, DDA, LSUs, new self-evaluation index ('RAISE') and more.
  • p.5 PRUs, SEBD & the Annual Report of HMCI Schools 2005/06: a summary by Ted Cole
  • p.7 Recently from the English Media: a range of relevant items
  • p.9 Behaviour and the 2006 Education and Inspection Act for England and Wales
  • p.11 New arrangements for NPSLBA/NBAE from Spring, 2007
  • p.11 The Education Secretary's Attitude to SENs and response to the Select Committee Report /compulsory training for SENCos
  • p.12 The future role of Ed. Psychs in England and Wales in light of ECM: key content from Peter Farrell and colleagues review for DfES.
  • p.13 Scotland: SEED Insight 34 'Behaviour In Schools' report - a synopsis
  • p.13 'Better Futures': revamped Scottish antibullying service
  • p.14 From the Scottish media: heads' exodus, cuts in CPD,ASBOs helping, teachers' working time, praise for SEBD school - and why women are grumpier than men in the morning...
  • p.16 Touch Therapy in a Scottish SEBD school: Solveig Berggren
  • p.17 Wales: the National Behaviour and Attendance Review
  • p.17 From the Welsh media: working together, gaol for parents of truants and looked after children.
  • p.18 Mike's Muses (continued): Mike McKeon considers the realities of moving to Children and Young Peoples Services.
  • p.18 CAMHS and education: Cynthia Fletcher
  • p.19 Keeping violence/ challenging behaviour in perspective: John Visser regrets media tendencies to sensationalise.
  • p.22 A video on selective mutism: Alice Sluckin Chair of SMIRA describes reactions to a new resource.
  • p.23 New feature - 'The Wise Old Bird Says...': Joan Normington answers yours and other FAQs to do with working with SEBD
  • p.23 Book Reviews: Coping with grief; NASEN journals on 'behaviour'; an staff induction handbook
  • p.24 Research findings update: DfES project on missing children, Rowntree Foundation on parenting programmes; Leon Tikly and colleagues on African Caribbean Achievement Project.
  • p.26 The National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care conference, 2006: Gerda Hanko reports
  • p.27 Social Scene: SEBDA Social Services Officer Cynthia Cross looks at the DfES Green Paper 'Care Matters'; NCB 'What Works in Residential Care' book; calls for a move away from a 'cops, courts and corrections' approach to youth justice; attachment difficulties; the contentious issue of sharing data on children (DfES 'The Information Sharing Index'); promoting mental health through NSF Standard 9.
  • p.34 SEBDA Around Britain: Barbara Knowles, Development Officer's report on Northern Ireland and England; Ted Cole gives info on the successful autumn conferences in Kent, Wales and Scotland - as well as training in the South West.
  • p.38 Forthcoming SEBDA professional development.