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Improving Our Schools: Responses to the Riddell Report

Foreword

In September 1999 I launched the consultation exercise on the Riddell Advisory Committee Report into educational provision for children with severe low incidences disabilities when I visited St Crispins School in Edinburgh. I welcomed the report's recommendations as an important contribution to the continuing debate on what can be done to improve educational provision for children and young people with special educational needs.

In this document we provide a brief outline of what respondents to the report had to say about the Committee's 22 recommendations. We comment in this report on what we have done in taking some of these recommendations forward. I am very grateful to all those who took part in the consultation exercise. Your comments have helped us identify further areas for consideration. Some of these will be taken forward by the new National SEN Advisory Forum which will meet regularly under the chairmanship of my colleague Peter Peacock.

Our work in helping to improve SEN provision in Scotland continues and this is reported on in the separate progress report which we issued in May on the Scottish Executive's SEN Programme of Action. I welcome your further comments on measures set out in this report and the Programme of Action .

Sam Galbraith MSP
Minister for Children and Education

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