Review of Special Education 2010: Discussion document
The Associate Minister of Education, Hon Heather Roy, launched this discussion document for consultation in February 2010. Submissions to the Review of Special Education are now closed. The Government is currently considering what changes it will make to special education in response to the submissions received. A summary of submissions will be published on this website when the Government announces its decisions
In this section
- Foreword
- Foreword to the Review of Special Education 2010 discussion document from the Associate Minister for Education
- Executive summary
- This review is about ensuring that our education system is responsive to, and effective in, providing for those students with the greatest needs for support to learn
- Seeking feedback on critical issues
- We are seeking feedback from the wide range of people that have a view of the special education sector
- How to have your say
- Submissions are now closed
- 01. Introduction
- This document proposes a vision for how special education services and support could work in the future and seeks your feedback on ways to achieve it
- 02. Successful schools
- Many schools are already very successful at meeting the full range of student needs, but some schools struggle to succeed in educating all students, especially those with special education needs
- 03. A network of successful schools
- At present, students with special education needs have the right to be enrolled in their local regular school or, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, in a special school
- 04. Transitions
- Times of transition are times of vulnerability for students with special education needs and their families
- 05. Agencies working better together
- Students with special education needs and their families and whānau often have contact with multiple agencies
- 06. Funding and resources for students
- Students with special education needs and their schools receive services and resources over and above those provided for every student to learn
- 07. High quality services
- The best way to improve services and to improve value for money within current funding is to focus on the volume and quality of services that are already provided
- 08. Being accountable
- Accountability is about everyone knowing what is involved in providing special education services and support
- 09. In closing
- You are welcome to answer all, or just some of the questions in this document but there is one final question we encourage you to answer if you only answer one
- Appendices
- glossary of terms used throughout this document, information about special education programmes and who delivers services, criteria to access the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes (ORRS), and endnotes