Support & Advice

Department for Education guidance documents

• Creating opportunity for all – Our vision for alternative provision (March 2018)
  
  
• Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions (Dec 2015) 

• SEND Code of Practice: 0 – 25 years (Jan 2015) 

• Ensuring a good education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs (Jan 2013)
  
  
• Alternative Provision – statutory guidance for Local Authorities (Jan 2013) 

• Mental health and behaviour in schools (Nov 2018) 
  
  
• Timpson Review of School Exclusion

House of Commons Education Committee documents

• Forgotten children: alternative provision and the scandal of ever increasing exclusions (July 2018)
  
  
• Special Educational Needs & Disabilities – first report 2019/20 (Oct 2019)

Department of Health & Social Care guidance documents

• Hospital education: a guide for health services

Ofsted Documents

• The Education Inspection Framework (Sept 2019)
  
  
• School Inspection Framework, Section 5 (Sept 2019)
  
  
• School Inspection Framework, Section 8 (Sept 2019)
  
  
• Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings (Sept 2019)
  
  
• Inspecting the curriculum (Sept 2019)

Other useful documents

• Children with medical needs. What schools and settings need to know. (NASEN)