Once policies are established by the government it is the schools responsibility to deliver them and keep up to date with any amendments. Schools are required to make sure that all its members of staff are made aware of any new policies or changes to current ones through training and by supplying them with electronic or hard copies of the policy. Some schools divide this responsibility by making certain members of staff responsible for policies relating to different areas i.e. the SENCO would be responsible for keeping up to date with policies regarding special educational needs.
Ultimately it is the role of the school to deliver changes that are implemented by national policies through; teaching methods, the support offered to children and families and overall provisions. An example of a policy change which required schools to implement a number of big changes was the ChildrenaˆTMs Act 2004 which was based on Every Child Matters report. Schools are expected to accomplish the 5 outcomes set by the Every Child Matters report; be safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, achieve economic well-being and make a positive contribution to society. In order for schools to achieve these outcomes they would have to work with other agencies to offer extended services (I.e. family support workers, speech and language therapists etc.) to children, young people and their…
The first being the health service, which includes professionals such as
speech and language therapists who seek to improve childrenaˆTMs and young peopleaˆTMs health. Speec and language therapists, who may work out of the Children and Young PeopleaˆTMs health service, seek to improve childrenaˆTMs language both externally and internally to the school. They tend to work with children and young people in schools when a childaˆTMs language difficulties have only been…