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Sharing practice: procedure for collating practice examples
This is a live document and readers are invited to update existing practice examples and add new practice examples by emailing ASLAct@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.
Updates and new practice examples will be identified by date. All other examples were chosen by delegates who attended the additional support for learning sharing practice seminars.
All seminars followed the same format. In advance, delegates were asked to choose two of the following breakout sessions, one in the morning and the second in the afternoon:
1. An overview of the Additional Support for Learning Act
An overview of the Act, its implications and the new rights and duties contained in it, followed by an opportunity to clarify any grey areas and dispel some of the myths associated with it.
2. Resolving disagreements: the new framework
A brief overview of the framework for resolving disagreements, followed by more in depth talks on the different mechanisms for resolving disagreements contained in the Act, and an opportunity to ask questions about the different mechanisms.
3. Identifying and assessing additional support needs
An opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the duties relating to the identification and assessment of additional support needs, and share experiences of effective practice with colleagues from different sectors and local authority areas.
4. Integration of services
An opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the duties relating to inter-agency working, and share experiences of effective practice with colleagues from different sectors and local authority areas.
5. Sharing information
An opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the duties to share information and involve parents, children and young people, and to share experiences of effective practice with colleagues from different sectors and local authority areas.
6. Transitions to post-school
An opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the duties relating to transitions to post school, and to share experiences of effective practice with colleagues from different sectors and local authority areas.
Also in advance of the seminar (with the exception of breakout sessions 1 and 2), delegates were asked to complete a form detailing a relevant example of good practice they had witnessed or participated in. Following a brief presentation overview of the topic, each breakout group shared and discussed each example of good practice and then selected those considered best in their view, to feed back to plenary.
A number of the examples demonstrate best practice in more than one of these areas, however, they are presented in this report under the headings of the breakout sessions at which they were presented.
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