Why we produced Learning Together

Including disabled children in mainstream schools continues to challenge teachers. The focus is often on physically accommodating a child in the classroom. But the requirement for evidence that they are making progress with learning is far more important as they move through the system.

Ofsted reported on The Special Educational Needs and Disability Review in September 2010. 

The review recommended:

• The first priority for all children should be good teaching and learning and good pastoral support.
• Early years providers, schools and colleges should be able to meet a wider range of additional needs as a matter of course, and their main funding should reflect local levels of need accordingly.

In 2011, Scope was awarded the contract to provide an online toolkit that would give early years practitioners, teachers and special educational needs co-ordinators the resources and practical solutions they needed to improve outcomes for disabled children and facilitate progress in their learning.