Toby Salt, deputy chief executive of the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services, will look into the supply of teachers trained to meet the needs of children with severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust will also be running a £550,000 project to share good practice in teaching and learning for children with the most complex learning difficulties.
Balls also announced measures to test easier ways of assessing children with special educational needs and new guidance to help schools to tackle high numbers of exclusions among children with special educational needs (SEN).
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