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Custodians of entitlement or agents of dependence? SEN support services in English LEAs in the context of greater delegation of funding to schools
Author(s) -
Gray Peter
Publication year - 2002
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 - 10.1111/1467-9604.00224
Subject(s) - entitlement (fair division) , custodians , context (archaeology) , special educational needs , service (business) , public administration , delegation , public relations , political science , sociology , special education , pedagogy , business , law , economics , paleontology , archaeology , mathematical economics , marketing , biology , history
During the last two years, the nature and funding of special educational needs (SEN) support services in English LEAs has been changing dramatically. In this article, Peter Gray looks at the ways in which support service funding has altered over the last decade and reports on research into more recent developments, which he carried out last year on behalf of the DfEE and the National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN). Peter argues that the funding and role of SEN support services is inextricably linked to expectations of what schools themselves should provide for pupils with special educational needs.