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Special Educational Needs
Self-evaluation is at the heart of school and local authority (LA) improvement. It supports schools and local authorities with their ongoing cycle of evidence-based planning, evaluation, review and development.
Click on the links below to access some useful self-evaluation materials to support schools and local authorities to evaluate the success of their strategy, provision and outcomes for children and young people with SEN/LDD.
A. School self-evaluation
1. The SEN/AEN Value For Money Resource Pack for Schools
This is a voluntary tool produced by the Audit Commission in conjunction with the National Strategies and the DCSF. It supports schools to:
- identify the resources that come into school for SEN/AEN to support the personalisation agenda
- to help schools to improve their strategic planning for support and interventions and, critically, to lead them to focus on evaluation of progress and outcomes.
2. The National Strategy Primary and Secondary School Self-evaluation website
This interactive self-evaluation tool is designed to help leadership teams in primary and secondary schools to assess the stage of development of the school in selected focus areas. It offers the opportunity to consider a range of ‘best fit’ statements using the well-known continuum ‘focusing, developing, establishing, enhancing’ and then to confirm or alter this initial judgement by referring to descriptors of the kind of evidence a school might look for in its own practice.
B. Local Authority self-evaluation
1. The 2008-9 SEN/LDD self-evaluation Framework for Local Authorities
The SEN/LDD Self-evaluation Framework is downloadable as a Word document. It has been developed to support LAs in reviewing and evaluating strategy, services and provision for children and young people with special educational needs/learning difficulties and disabilities (SEN/LDD). It also provides useful SEN/LDD benchmarked data.
2. The National Performance Framework
The NPF contains a range of performance, pupil-related and financial data on SEN and inclusion that enables LAs to:
- compare aspects of current performance with past performance
- compare aspects of performance with other LAs
- identify gaps in performance
- identify areas where improvement and development might be helpful
- monitor progress.
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