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ANNEX C: CONTENTS OF RECORD OF NEEDS (Parts III - VI)
The circular and Annexes A and B refer to Record of Needs in general rather than making reference to the specific parts of them. This annex is intended to provide information about the purpose and content of the parts of Records of Needs that are most relevant to the circular and Annexes A and B.
1. Parts III to VI of the Record should be seen as a series of logical steps leading from one to the other. Part III, which must include both an assessment profile and a summary of impairments, leads to the identification of special educational needs (Part IV) and the relevant aims and objectives of provision and the services to be provided. Those, in turn, suggest the contents of the statement of provision (Part V) and the recommendations for location leading usually to the nominated school (Part VI);
In summary, the different parts are:
- PART IIIA - an assessment profile;
- PART IIIB - a summary of the child's or young persons impairments;
- PART IV - a statement of the special educational needs arising from those impairments;
- PART V - a statement of the measures proposed by the education authority to be taken to meet those needs;
- PART VI - where appropriate the nomination of the school to be attended;
PART III the assessment profile and summary of impairments
2. Part III has 2 separate parts: Part IIIA - the assessment profile and Part IIIB - the summary of impairments giving rise to special educational needs.
PART IV - statement of special educational needs
3. Authorities should aim to refer in Part IV to all special educational needs arising from the impairments described in Part IIIB. Part IV should set out the broad developmental and educational aims for a child or young person under the terms of the Record.
PART V - measures proposed by the education authority to meet the special educational needs of the child or young person
4. Part V of the Record, contains information as to the measures proposed by education authorities to meet the special educational needs of the child or young person concerned. This enables a strategy to be set out for the provision of appropriate education for each recorded child or young person. Part V should, therefore, specify the educational approach which the authority considers necessary to fulfil its statutory obligations
PART VI - nomination of the school to be attended
5. The education authority must state in Part VI the school it considers the child or young person should attend, even if it has already made such a statement in Part IV (where it states the special educational needs of the child or young person concerned). Where appropriate, any special provision which may be needed to make that school suitable for the recorded pupil's education should also be noted in Part VI.
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