Is the Process to long and what are the Implications?
By Richard Kizis - Added 21st of December 2008Implications of having long Refferal Processes
What you have to take into account as a parent as we have said before, that the schools have no say in the length of time for these processes. The implication of having no set time scales for special provisions, children can and do drift though the education system sometimes for years. This can lead to the behaviour becoming more entranced and more difficult to change. When I have spoken to the EBD unit’s teachers for our local area they always say “why does it take so long for us to get hold of these children, the earlier we can get them the better the outcome will be?” The implications of crisis managing these children is that when the children eventually get the correct support the task of changing the behaviour take so much longer, if indeed it can be changed at all. These procedures in turn clog up the whole system turning the EBD units into containment centres, rather than to rehabilitate. If we can get a time scale set from the referral stage to conclusion these children will get the support required earlier giving a better opportunity to get the child back into main stream school freeing up spaces subsequently for other children in the education system.