Implementing Inclusiveness Realising
Potential
Annex B
The Beattie Committee
"The Shopping List" - Key issues considered by
the Committee
Transitions from school to college and/or
training, and ultimately to employment
- Guidance
- Improved communication between agencies
- Transition for looked after children
- Parental concerns
- Factors affecting employability
Improved assessment and identification of
education and training needs
- A person centred approach
- Recognise that assessment is an ongoing
process
- Build on existing documentation
- Guidelines for staff involved in assessment
- Cross sector consistency in approaches to
assessment of need.
Staff Development and Training
- More cross sectoral staff development and
training
- Analysis of staff training and development
- More time allowed for training
- Better quality staff training
- Disability awareness training for senior staff
- More encouragement from institution for staff to
participate in development and training
- Development and training of employers
Adequacy and appropriateness of
provision
- Available programmes may be inappropriate
- Curriculum, culture and context of
institutions
- More sharing of specialised resources
- Collaborative development of specialised
resources
Better arrangements for transfer and progression
- Guidance
- Onwards and upwards progression
- Sectors should see post 16 education and training
as a continuum of provision and accept responsibility
for assisting young people to progress through the
continuum
- Funding issues
Involving Employers
- Encouraging the business community to act as
advocates
- Reaching a shared understanding with employers
- Mentoring
Other issues
- Advocacy, particularly for looked after children
and young offenders
- A strategic approach should be taken to stop
re-inventing the wheel.
- Importance of enabling technologies
- Economic argument - doing nothing will cost more in
the long term
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