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Current Legislation for Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: A Clear Way Forward?
Author(s) -
Gray Peter,
Noakes Jim
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.00086
Subject(s) - legislation , blame , trace (psycholinguistics) , psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy
Peter Gray and Jim Noakes identify some of the inconsistencies in the legislation relating to emotional and behavioural difficulties. They trace the events of the last ten years and describe the policy environment, which tends to be still characterised by ‘defensiveness and blame’. The new guidance for schools, they argue, could provide useful opportunities for reassessing provision although they note, inevitably it seems these days, the absence of additional funds to resource policies.