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SEBDA News - Summer/Autumn 2008 Issue 16

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  • p.1 The new BESD guidance; the White Paper 'Back on Track'; giving anonymity to teachers accused of abuse in Scotland; the Welsh NBAR report.
  • p.3 Chairman's Report
  • p.3 Director's Report
  • p.4 Education Officer's Report - a wide ranging review by Dr John Visser.
  • p.5 Review of English news: NCH renamed; 92% of 11 year olds without SENs achieve government targets - so why is the chief HMCI so upset? Exclusion trends; struggling secondary schools - is the National Challenge helpful? The SATS fiasco and the new Diplomas.
  • p.8 SEBDA and the National CAMHS Review: fighting to get 'BESD' recognised as a vulnerable group that should be prioritised by CAMHS.What members think - the SEBDA survey on CAMHS.
  • p.9 The 'BESD Guidance': key content and an assessment of the long-awaited guidance.
  • p.11 'Back on Track' - the DCSF White Paper on the future of PRUs/ alternative provision - the SEBDA response.
  • p.14 SEBDA Members in the news: Parkside rocks, the Mulberry, the Ian Mikardo school and good Ofsteds in Tyneside and Kent.
  • p.15 Further English media items:YOT to help run SEBD school; CWDC to handle funding for Ed. Psych training; the ISA and Frank Furedi's Licensed to hug' - are plans to do CRB checks on a quarter of the population, from 2009, a necessary safeguard or a 'poisonous' development, fundamentally harming society? 'Poor' acoustics in PFI schools and further items.
  • p.18 Scottish scene: new Schools inspection system.A new paper on health and wellbeing. The bureaucratic nature of the ASL Act? Is brain gym 'complete mumbo jumbo'? Exam reforms and 'wacky Baccy'; the FOFO Approach to training Scottish teachers.
  • p.21 Wales: the National Behaviour and Attendance Review Report's recommendations. A new head for DCELLS. Wider search powers for teachers? Other news items including the myth of teachers' long summer holidays.
  • p.24 Northern Ireland: cuts to budgets and the National Children Bureau in the Province.
  • p.24 The 2008 NAES and PRUs Conferences - including enlightening words from Margot Sunderland on brain development and rearing children.
  • p.26 Mike Mckeon's latest muse on the need for precision when talking to children with SEBD - and why does the RSPCA get into families in difficulties ahead of Children's Services?
  • p.26 Think positive to get the best out of children with SEBD, advises the Wise Old Bird, Joan Normington, citing Law Nolte's poem 'Children Learn What They Live'.
  • p.28 Social Scene: Cynthia Cross takes excerpts from the final Bercow Report on speech, language and communication needs; looks at the Youth Crime Action Plan; the 3rd Safeguarding Children Report; the Ofsted Early Years report and finally, the Court of Appeal's quashing of restraint rules in children's secure settings.
  • p.33 Social issues in the media: the Children's Bill, through 'parkour' to Mr Whippy and ASB.
  • p.35 Reviews of recent publications on resilience, parenting/child development, managing children's homes, a youth justice dictionary Melanie Cross's excellent 2004 book 'Communication Problems and Children with EBD.'
  • p.37 Training and Development Manager's report. Barbara's last words, wearing this particular hat.
  • p.37 SEBDA news from around the UK.
  • p.39 SEBDA's Professional Development report.
  • p.39 SEBDA's autumn programme.