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A scottish framework for nursing in schools
SERVICE COMPONENTS
17. Children with Special Needs
Standard Statement
There is an identified nursing team consisting of an appropriate mix of skills and expertise to address the needs of children with special needs both in special schools and mainstream schools.
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Modern health care and technology mean that children with serious life threatening diseases and chronic illnesses are surviving into adulthood, but many have complex health needs and disabilities. Assessing our Children's Educational Needs: The Way Forward? (2002) set out proposals to modernise and improve assessment, recording and support for children with Special Educational Needs. Proposals will be formalised in the Education (Additional Support for Learning) Bill and a subsequent strategy. Effectively managing the increasingly complex and varied health needs of children will require specialist expertise from a skilled multi-disciplinary school health team as well as day to day support from school based support workers. Nurses will have an important contribution to make to these new teams and will increasingly develop as a specialist resource, separate from the main school nursing team. | - Nurses are part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary "special needs" team providing appropriate support to special schools and advice and support for mainstream schools providing for children with special/complex needs.
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- Nurses working with children with special needs are part of specialist community children's nursing teams with access to appropriate education and development.
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- School profiling and individual assessments establish the extent of need and form the basis of service planning and delivery.
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- Children and young people with special needs who have a nursing need each have an individual assessment and care plan agreed with the child, their family and the school.
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- Children and young people with special needs are included in all health promotion programmes offered to the rest of the school community and adapted to meet the needs of individual children.
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- Nurses work closely with individual children, their parents, key workers, the school and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that the health needs of children with special needs are assessed and plans put in place to meet them.
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