YES - Chris Darlington, president of the National Association of Special Needs Education and head teacher of St Hugh's Special Secondary School, Scunthorpe
This has been confirmed by recent research - an Ofsted evaluation confirmed that inclusion does not boost special educational needs attainment. However, what we also need to consider is these young people's achievement, which is much more around socialisation, confidence and self-esteem. We also need teachers to be given more training to ensure they have high expectations.
NO - Linda McCarthy, teaching assistant manager, Newark Orchard special school, Nottinghamshire
It's succeeding to some extent but more needs to be done to build on the commitment that's there among staff. Many of our mainstream schools as well as all of our area special schools use individual education plans. In my experience in local mainstream schools, there is the will among staff to make education for special needs children successful. If the budget is in place they will be successful, but not every school is like that.
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