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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his lengthy statement to the House. Minister, last year, I had correspondence with the Health Minister about the case of a young child who is not due to receive his NHS diagnosis of autism until this July and who should be starting primary school in September. He was placed on the urgent list…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for the vision that he outlined today. I know that this is a top priority for him in his role. What parents really want from any reforms is their children to get the correct and proper support that they require. The Minister touched on this, but, to allow him the opportunity to hone in on it more…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his statement. Minister, I welcome your comments about the importance of early intervention, and I will refer to last May's announcement on a range of measures for early education, including the Northern Ireland childcare subsidy scheme. As well as progressing the new measures that you…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I applaud your statement, Minister, and the scope and scale of the child-centred ambition inherent in your reform agenda. I applaud your use of empathetic language around a bespoke, flexible and holistic special-educational-needs-first approach. You referred to the importance of a child's getting a statement of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
Minister, I welcome your statement today. I think that everybody agrees that we need transformation when it comes to special educational needs. As part of your plans, will children with SEN no longer be considered as supernumerary when it comes to placements?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his statement and the continued delivery for our SEN children. I see the importance of the significant investment that has been delivered by his Department every single day when I leave my son to school. There is an urgent need to streamline the assessment process, which, for many parents, is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his statement. I welcome in particular, Minister, your highlighting the importance of responding early and your unstinting commitment to doing so. On the subject of early interventions for children with special educational needs, are the proposed provisions designed for children who have been…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I commend the Minister for again making sure that SEN is to the fore of his change agenda. In your statement, Minister, you used the formal GCSE qualification as a metric for bringing about change, yet the independent review of education suggests that GCSEs are not a useful terminal exam. Are we not in danger of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I, too, welcome the Minister's statement and his ongoing commitment to children with special educational needs. Minister, in your statement you said that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to one-to-one support. Will you outline your plan for one-to-one classroom assistant support for children?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for the statement. He will be aware that the requirement for prior educational psychologist service assessments has been removed, which, in theory, means that children should now be able to access support without such a referral. Is it not the case, however, that special educational needs…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
Thank you, Minister, for your statement. SEN transformation is anxiously awaited by parents and schools. I am sure that the Minister will agree that children have to be at the heart of any action that is taken. We have only two years left in the mandate: what difference will there be for children at the end of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his comprehensive statement. The Minister will know that we are all concerned about the huge and rising numbers of children with special educational needs in our education system, the impact that that has on the child and the parents and how teachers, in many ways, feel under-equipped to deal…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
Minister, I agree that real change is needed. For far too long, families have had to fight daily for the support that their children deserve. Children with special educational needs have been failed. Due to the lack of special schools, children who should have a place do not, and they have been placed in a specialist…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his statement and join others in welcoming it. Minister, what specific plans or policies are being implemented within the continuous professional development plan to attract and retain qualified professionals?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I thank the Minister for his statement. One issue that my constituents bring up time and time again — actually, I spoke to a constituent in relation to it just on Friday — is information sharing between Health and Education, which is relevant when dealing with speech and language or mental health matters. I note from…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht a ráitis inniu. I welcome the statement, in which the Minister rightly states that some of our schools will need specialist support. I presume that he is talking about speech and language therapists, behavioural therapists and other allied health professionals, of which there is a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
Minister, I welcome your statement and particularly the SEN-first approach to school placements. One thing that I noticed was that it did not address post-19 provision. I recently met Alma from Caleb's Cause about that issue and the cliff edge that children with special educational needs experience after leaving…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
Today I set out my vision for the most ambitious programme of special educational needs (SEN) reform in a generation, which will see our children and young people with special educational needs truly thriving in education. The challenges around special educational needs provision are well documented and have rightly…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs
I rise to express my concern about the Riverside Theatre in Coleraine, which has been an important cultural institution in Northern Ireland since 1976. It is the only professional theatre in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area, and its potential closure would have wide-ranging consequences not only for…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Riverside Theatre, Coleraine Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Riverside Theatre, Coleraine
I will talk about the importance of vaccination and the need to tackle misinformation about vaccines. The situation is especially concerning over the winter period, as we have seen a rise in infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and the flu, in addition to the usual pressures that our already overstretched and…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Vaccine Hesitancy Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Vaccine Hesitancy
I express deep concern about and am raising awareness of the ongoing search for Larne man Gary Patterson, a 45-year-old who has been missing for almost three months. The last confirmed sighting of Gary was on Saturday 12 October 2024, when he withdrew £100 from a bank machine close to his home in Larne. Since then,…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Missing Person: Gary Patterson Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Missing Person: Gary Patterson
I will talk about an issue that is nothing short of a crisis: the mental health and well-being of our children and young people. That crisis is claiming lives, devastating families and stretching our health and education systems to their limits. I begin by acknowledging the parents who, last month, just prior to…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Children and Young People: Mental Health and Well-Being Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Children and Young People: Mental Health and Well-Being
Hopefully, someone has wished you a happy new year, Mr Speaker. If they have not done so, I will. Our newsfeeds are filled with the unfolding international tragedy of the wildfires in Los Angeles that, we have been told today, have claimed 24 lives. Tragically, that count may still escalate. The count of 24 deaths…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Los Angeles: Wildfires Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Los Angeles: Wildfires
People say that you can judge an individual or organisation not on their words but by their actions. In six months of the Labour Government, their actions have amounted to no more than betrayal, deceit and destruction. In Opposition, the Labour Party said that it supported a public inquiry into grooming gangs — gangs…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Labour Government Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Labour Government
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