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SEBDA News - Winter 2007/08 Issue 14
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- p.1 SEBDA HQ has moved to Manchester.
- p.3 Chairman's report.
- p.4 In memorium: Allan Rimmer, 1938 - 2007
- p.4 Director's report.
- p.5 Education officer's report: John Visser looks at the Children and Young People's Bill and the Education and Skills Bill creating more flexible curriculum and later raising of school/training leaving age.
- p.5 New Government review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- p.6 Abuse procedures under new review
- p.7 Recently in the English Media: a wide-range of topics are covered in this round up from the press and web from Autumn 2007.
- p.9 PRUs, SEBD schools and children's homes: what HMCI had to say in her annual report.
- p.9 Success at an independent residential school: Farney Close School, Sussex.
- p.10 SEBD schools shine in recent Ofsted reports: six encouraging reports which highlight the essence of good practice.
- p.14 Scotland: Major early years strategy is planned by the Scottish Nationalist government, Should Standard Grades be scrapped and other items in the Scottish media.
- p.15 Wales: John Wagstaff, Chair, hands over the reins. The Children's Commissioner's report on unofficial exclusions.
- p.16 Revised DCFS guidance on physical restraint; and 'prone' RPI Techniques: George Matthews of Team-teach argues that these should not be banned and can be the safest approach after a careful risk assessment has been made.
- p.17 A Head Full of Fairies': Mike Mckeon muses on a child's explanation for her dyslexia and the wider value of seeing the world through children's eyes. We can learn from their insights and wisdom.
- p.18 The 'Wise Old Bird','SEBDA' not 'BESDA': Joan Normington reminds us why we (and the Scots and so many English practitioners) are right and the English Government, wrong.
- p.19 National Award for the Relationships Centre ('Talk - Don't Walk' runaways programme), Cheshire.
- p.19 SEAL in Bradford:Alison Geldart, head of the SEBD Team in Bradford, reports on the development of SEAL at both primary and secondary school levels.
- p.20 Children like boundaries: More practical advice from Phil Craig, Head of Kirklees BESD Service.
- p.22 Social Scene: Cynthia Cross takes excerpts from and comments upon the Children and Young Persons Bill (2007), which overhauls the legal framework underpinning the care system; the government's highly advertised Children's Pan; a book on children and risk; the Council for Disabled Children's Inclusion Policy; the Children's Legal Centre's 'Legal Guide:Working with Young People; the National Framework Contract - for the placement of Children in Children's Homes; and lastly, the Ofsted Report 'Children's Messages on Care'.
- p.30 Research brief:The Cambridge University primary review on social development and peer interaction.
- p.30 Extended review article:'Making and Breaking Children's Lives' - is 'ADHD' an unhelpful and often inaccurate diagnostic category, that gets in the way of rounded mental health work and exposes too many children to possibly damaging psycho-stimulant drugs? Newnes and Ratcliffe's book makes us pause for thought - even if we disagree strongly with them.
- p.33 Short reviews
- p.33 Managed Moves as an alternative to permanent exclusion - a new report funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation plus a case study exemplar.
- p.33 Researchers suggest TV is "the greatest unacknowledged threat to children of our times".
- p.35 Around the regions and Training and Development Manager's report
- p.36 The Universities of Malta and Leicester European Conference on SEBCD.
- p.37 Professional development report.
- p.40 The SEBDA spring programme.