A message from SEND team at DfE:
We are writing to inform you that today we have updated our Guidance for full opening for special schools and other specialist settings: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-full-opening-special-schools-and-other-specialist-settings/guidance-for-full-opening-special-schools-and-other-specialist-settings
- Clinically extremely vulnerable pupils
This change is where two previous sections have been condensed together to improve readability. There is no new wording or policy changes.
- Section 4: Assessment and accountability
- Inspection – confirming how and when Ofsted inspections will be reintroduced over the spring and summer terms.
- Primary Assessment – updated information on the KS1 and KS2 tests for 2020/21
- Exams –updated information on the plans for exams in 2021
- Accountability – updated information on the collation and publication of performance tables in 2020/21
- Section 5: Contingency planning for remote education
Further details on the expectations for the provision of remote education for those children and young people who are unable to attend their setting due to coronavirus (COVID-19).We recognise the additional challenges that some children and young people with SEND will experience in accessing remote education. We have, therefore,been clear that specialist settings will need to work with parent /families/ carers to agree an ambitious yet pragmatic approach to supporting children and young people with complex needs to access appropriate remote learning and support where they are not able to be in school or college.
There is noone size fits all approach and anyDfE or Ofsted engagement concerning remote provision will always take into account the circumstances of the setting and its pupils, students and staff. Additionally, we are expecting to do a further ‘house-keeping’ update next week which will update the references to the autumn term to reflect that, from January, we will be entering the spring term.