Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004

1. Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 Child has additional support needs if the child: • is likely to be unable, without the provision of additional support, to benefit from school education. Additional support means: • provision which is additional to, or otherwise different from, that generally available to those of the same age.

2. Inclusion ASL/GIRGEC Interface What is GIRFEC? • Meets the needs and promotes the well-being and potential of all children. What is the ASL Act? • Aims to ensure that all children and young people with additional support needs receive the necessary help to ensure they benefit from school education.

3. Inclusion ASL/GIRGEC Interface • Seek to enable all to become: • successful learners • confident individuals • effective contributors and • responsible citizens. Curriculum for Excellence -

4. Inclusion

5. Inclusion ASL/GIRGEC Interface • Do the Principles of ASL and GIRFEC fit together? GIRFEC – Principles • Meet the needs of all children in a proportionate and timely way. ASL • Focuses on children’s learning in the broadest sense. • Sits within the overall GIRFEC approach

6. Inclusion Planning Do we need a Coordinated Support Plan (CSP) and a GIRFEC Plan • CSP is a statutory plan – statutory requirement to prepare one. • Where there is multi-agency intervention GIRFEC principles point to having a single planning process.

7. HEALTH PLAN REASON

8. CHILD PROTECTION PLAN REASON

9. LAC CARE PLAN REASON

10. GIRFEC PLAN REASON

11. ASP/CSP REASON

12. HEALTH PLAN REASON

13. CHILD PROTECTION PLAN REASON

14. LAC CARE PLAN REASON

15. GIRFEC PLAN REASON

16. ASP/CSP REASON

17. HEALTH PLAN REASON

18. WHAT’S IN A PLAN – ANY PLAN? REASON

19. Single Planning Process CSP – Criteria Section 2 of the ASL Act. CSP – Part of the one planning process. CSP Regulations – plan – reg 3; disclosure of the plan – reg10. How does the one planning process come together? Steps: • Manual process at first • Revised eCare model 2011 • Electronic CSP - bring into single planning orbit.