Special Provision for Children with Behavioural Problems
By Richard Kizis - Added 20th of December 2008Why does it take so long to get Special Provision for Children with Behavioural Problems within Education?
The current process for getting children special provisions within Education who display behavioural problems is a lengthy, drawn-out road of bureaucracy together with endless evidence gathering. This can result with the child drifting through the education system. The knock on effect of this for parent’s can be total dis-engagement from the school and the education system, due to frustration, as they watch their children fall further behind in school, which in its self adds to further behavioural problems escalating in the child as they struggle within the classroom.
A parent dealing with the endless phone calls from school and exclusions puts pressure on these families home life and sometimes if not strong enough it can break-down altogether. Many parents I speak to in these situations simply require some movement forward for their child. The infuriating issue about the outcomes can be schools having no say on the final decision in connection with the child’s outcome and end up being as frustrated as the parents themselves. Some schools will judge themselves as failures if a child has to go to a specialise school, however we always look at this as a positive, the correct support has been accomplish for the individual child concerned, enabling them to move forward in their education, giving them better life chances for the future. This has a knock on effect for their families, failure only comes when we mask behaviour problem for long periods of time and compromise the child’s education for the sake of targets.
For this reason we would like to start an on line campaign at www.blotschool.co.uk to try and get a realistic time scale set in stone for your children with behavioural problems to stop drift within the education system.