Cynulliad
Cenedlaethol Cymru | National
Assembly for Wales
Y
Pwyllgor Plant, Pobl Ifanc ac Addysg | Children,
Young People and Education Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Plant, Pobl Ifanc
ac Addysg
| Priorities
for the Children, Young People and Education
Committee
CYPE
78
Ymateb
gan : Cymru ALN – HE & EOTAS
Response
from : Cymru ALN – HE & EOTAS
Question
1 – Within the
remit set out above: what do you consider to be the priorities or
issues that the Children, Young People and Education Committee
should consider during the Fifth Assembly?
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We have concerns
that the requirements for children, who are being educated outside
the school system, to access services such as health and social
care have not been adequately considered during the drafting of the
Additional Learning Needs Bill. Equality of access to NHS
diagnostic and therapeutic services is of particular concern. There
are a great many reasons why a child may not be attending school,
some of those are listed below:-
1/ Acute or chronic medical needs both physical and mental.
2/ Elective Home Educators.
3/ No suitable school places are available to cater for a
child’s additional learning needs.
4/ Children awaiting appropriate educational placements, including
those moving into a new local area from elsewhere.
5/ Young Offenders
6/ Anxiety sufferers/school refuser's
7/ As a result of a failed school placement. This is most likely to
occur at key transitions.
8/Travellers and transient families.
We would greatly appreciate the opportunity to work with the
Assembly and other Key stakeholders to investigate how to ensure
that vulnerable children educated outside the school system have
true equality of access to all the services they need. Where
appropriate it may be that amendments to the Additional Learning
Needs Bill could be made in consultation with families and
professionals to help ensure the well-being of all children in
Wales.
We would also like to focus on communicating the changes that the
Additional Learning Needs Bill will bring to families before it is
implemented.
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Question 2 – From the list of priorities or issues
you have identified, what do you consider to be the key areas that
should be considered during the next 12 months (please identify up to three areas or
issues)? Please outline why these should be considered as key
priorities.
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QUESTION
Which are the key groups of children who will be most at risk of
exclusion from key diagnostic and health care services as a result
of the Additional Learning Needs Bill?
We get the highest number of requests for support from these two
groups; but would welcome some assistance with research to help
identify whether it is just that these are the families coming
forward most often to ask for help, and if the need is truly
greatest here.
1. Neurodivergent children and young people such as those with
Autism and related conditions. (dyspraxia, dyslexia, adhd, pda,
spd,etc).
2. Anxiety disorders.
GOALS
To ensure that all children & young people retain equality of
access to all NHS diagnosti, treatment and theraputic
services based on need and not the location of where they are
educated?
To ensure equality of access to social care services based on a
child or young persons need and not the location of where they are
educated?
To ensure all families have access to the relevant information they
need to ensure the well-being of all children with additional
learning needs in Wales, whatever the mode of educational provision
they receive.
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