“Buckingham Palace have today announced that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, is to appoint Professor Barry Carpenter OBE, as Commander of the British Empire (CBE). The award is made to Professor Barry Carpenter in recognition of his national, and international service to the field of Special Educational Needs. An investiture will take place early in the New Year, at the Palace.
31st December 2015″
See Full New Year’s Honours List 2015
Dr Raja Mukherjee (National Clinic for Fetal Alcohol, UK) explains why diagnosing FASD is important.
This week a new EU funded Erasmus Project was launched in Graz, Austria. This Project will take the extensively trialled Briefing Sheets for the UK CLDD Project (Engagement4Learning) and translate them into several European languages.
The briefing sheets will then be used to support Inclusion of children with Special Needs in the representative EU countries. The Project will go through
various trial and development phases, through to 2018.
For more information please go to http://early-inclusion.eu
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This briefing from the Office of National Statistics, (ONS) offers a useful profile of the latest trends in child mental health, and confirms a dramatic increase in mental ill health in Britain’s children.
This new Study form the Centre for Mental Health, gives current and very relevant facts and information on the current State of Mental Health in Britain’s children and young people.
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Following on from my earlier challenge to schools and service about their male engagement strategies, this magazine from CAF is full of useful ideas, insights and stories.
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/media/901809/connected_autumn_2015.pdf
This two part article, recently published in the new SEND magazine, gives an overview of the phenomena that many school are experiencing , namely that the children they identify with SEND today, are increasingly different to those they identified yesterday.
