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