Special educational needs training: Needs must

By Judith Napier, Nursery World, 1 November 2000

The National Association for Special Educational Needs has called for better training for classroom support staff. Judith Napier reports

A national organisation for special needs education is concerned that Britain's most vulnerable children are sometimes being looked after in the classroom by our least qualified and experienced staff. The personnel to whom the National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN) is referring are teachers' assistants, who can be qualified - as in the case of nursery nurses - or unqualified, as in the case of many classroom assistants, and have various titles depending on which local education authority they work...

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