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Allocating pupils with SEND to schools

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:47 am
by sujonkumar6300
The research identified two core connections between policy and travel. First, policies and other measures make families responsible for actively choosing a school that does not have to be the nearest. Interviewed parents selected schools based on reputation, inspection report or school type, all of which policies help to sustain. Second, (quasi-)market reforms that link funding to pupil enrolment can incentivise school leaders to recruit pupils by heavily promoting their offerings to families outside the immediate locality.

Is a more complex process. Nevertheless, interviewees reflected on the role of policy in shaping the challenges identified by Kemp et al. (2024). Specifically, policy change has resulted in tunisia consumer email list the creation of a smaller range of separate SEND schools and the closure of specialist SEND teaching units on mainstream sites. Transport co-ordinator officers reflected that a perverse outcome of excluding pupils with SEND from mainstream sites is that it requires them to commute over longer distances at a higher cost to local authorities.

‘School travel, particularly SEND travel, should not be understood solely in terms of financial cost as this contributes to misconceptions of children and young people as burdensome to local authorities. […] The research found that lengthy commutes impair action on other policy goals.’