Feb. 21 2024
Source Page: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Equality Impact AssessmentFound: Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill Equality Impact Assessment
Feb. 16 2024
Source Page: Recommendations for Councillors' Remuneration and ExpensesFound: Recommendations for Councillors' Remuneration and Expenses
Feb. 16 2024
Source Page: Consultation on the Licensing of Activities Involving Animals Analysis of responses receivedFound: and writing and learning difficulties
Feb. 13 2024
Source Page: Correspondence between John Stevenson and Shirley-Anne Somerville: FOI reviewFound: Correspondence between John Stevenson and Shirley-Anne Somerville: FOI review
Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) implement a plan of support for the most commonly occurring special educational needs, including Dyslexia - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) It has a similar prevalence and impact on education and employment as dyslexia, yet there is no official - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) specific learning difficulties such as dyscalculia into the early career framework. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) relative stability over many years at the age of diagnosis, although there is greater identification of specific - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) That is important, because we know that children with special educational needs, more than any other - Speech Link
Feb. 08 2024
Source Page: New visits to understand how well children with SEND are prepared for adulthoodFound: in learning and to behaviour difficulties.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to assist students with SEND to access higher education as (a) school leavers and (b) mature students.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department works to ensure that students of all ages with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) can access higher education. Under Section 20 of the Equality Act 2010, education and training providers and other related service providers have a duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people, including people with a learning difficulty, so they are not placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to non-disabled students.
Support is provided for disabled students by higher education providers (HEPs) through reasonable adjustment and disability services, some of which is funded through the Disabled Student Premium as well as by the government through the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA).
DSA is available to help students with the additional costs they may face in higher education because of their disability. This includes long-term health conditions, mental health conditions, or specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia. DSA can be used for the purchase of specialist equipment, for travel, or to pay for non-medical help, including the human support provided to students to enable them to access their studies. It is not means-tested and does not have to be repaid. It is available to eligible full-time and part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
The department’s grant with Disability Rights UK provides a Disabled Students Helpline that responds to over 1,500 enquiries per year.
Written Evidence Feb. 06 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: EPs work with education professionals in nurseries, schools and other settings and with colleagues
Feb. 05 2024
Source Page: HMP Bure: Action PlanFound: difficulties, limited resource meant these were only available at the end of their sentences , which
Feb. 05 2024
Source Page: HMP Bure: Action PlanFound: difficulties, limited resource meant these were only available at the end of their sentences , which