In a candid letter which was sent to local authority chief executives'schools minister Lord Andrew Adonis says that there are a number ofbarriers preventing professionals from making progress on governmentpolicies.
He reveals that officials have been given six months to implement newways of working in councils across the country.
The letter, sent out earlier this month, says that while specialeducational needs professionals support the Government's strategy inprinciple, they find many of the individual policies and programmes aredifficult to implement in practice.
It concludes: "We need to work together to resolve some of thestructural and other obstacles which are preventing us from making areality of the vision set out in the special educational needs strategy.To that end we have asked the Department for Education and Skills'special educational needs advisers to work with local authorities toidentify and draw up models of good practice which address the issues;to disseminate those models to local authorities across the country; andto work with individual authorities to consider how these models mightbest be tailored to them in light of their own individual circumstances.We have asked the special educational needs advisers to report back tous in six months."
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