Working Smarter Together for additional support

1. Working Smarter Together for additional support Discussion Group Connecting the dots between Additional Support for Learning, GIRFEC and Curriculum for Excellence 16.3.2011

2. Connecting the dots • Drivers: • Law • Standards in Scottish Schools Act 2000 • Additional Support for Learning Acts 2004 and 2009 • Disability Discrimination Acts 1995, 2002, 2005 • Equalities Act 2010 • Approach • Getting it Right for Every Child. • Curriculum for Excellence

3. Connecting the dots Additional Support for Learning • All children need support to help them learn, some more than others. • Additional Support is: ‘provision which is additional to, or otherwise different from, the educational provision made generally for children’ (ASL Act-Section 1(3)) • Assessment , identification and support based on individual need.

4. Connecting the dots • Getting it Right for Every Child Ensuring all children are : • Safe • Healthy • Achieving • Nurtured • Active • Respected and responsible • Included Getting the right support , to the right child at the right time.

5. Connecting the dots Curriculum for Excellence Every Child has the right to become a • successful learner • Confident individual • Effective contributor • Responsible citizen wherever learning takes place Every child entitled to a broad general education which develops their personality reflecting the ways different learners progress. Every one has a responsibility for cross cutting themes of numeracy, literacy, health and wellbeing

6. Connecting the dots Discussion: • What are the strengths/opportunities • What are the challenges? • What needs to be done to help : Authorities Parents/carers/children/young people Partner agencies be better supported to move forward in this landscape?

7. Connecting the Dots