Inclusive provision for students with special educational needs and/or disabilities: a resourced provision toolkit

Abstract

'Resourced Provision (RP) classrooms in Mainstream Schools: A Partnership to promote the Inclusion of Students with Special Educational Needs and/or disabilities (SEND)’, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and ESRC-IAA, is a collaborative research project including RP managers, teachers, learning support assistants (LSAs), parents and students from three primary mainstream schools with RP in Hampshire.

Led by Associate Professor Vasilis Strogilos with the support of two researchers, Ms Cleo Barron and Dr Becky Ward, the project aimed to describe and evaluate with the participants how RP can enhance the education and inclusion of students with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream schools. One of the aims of the project was to co-develop with the participants a guidance document/toolkit to support school staff in the inclusion of these students in their schools.

Many students with SEND with an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP), which describes the support a child requires to meet their needs, are educated both in RP and mainstream classes. In England, RP is described as the use of additional staff or classrooms that offer specialist facilities within a mainstream setting for children with SEND (Department for Education, 2017). Although the Department for Education (2015) notes that pupils in RP tend to receive individual or smallgroup support from specialist teachers and support staff, it recognises that there is considerable variation across schools with regard to the RP structure.

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ORCID for Vasilis Strogilos: orcid.org/0000-0003-1754-4306

ORCID for Becky Ward: orcid.org/0000-0001-7703-8670

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