The legal requirements relevant to inclusive practice.
A practice is said to be inclusive when a setting make everyone feel welcomed and gives all children in their care equal opportunity to achieve the highest of standards. This can be done or achieved when the various needs and diverse lifestyle of children and their families are factored into the settings planning, be it weekly, monthly or yearly. (Tassoni P., 2005:245)
Because this is such an important aspect of caring for children and young people, there are some legal requirements put in place to support it. They include;
The Human Right Act (1998): This act protects individual or children from being discriminated against. It also means that every child has a right to education and as such no child should be denied that privilege. It allows children as well as their family freedom of thoughts, practices of their religion and allows all family to be respected. It celebrates diversity in general. The setting makes it a priority to phone up parents of every child who is absent to check why they were absent and if they were ok. By doing this they are trying to give every child the right to education and not preventing them from enjoying that privilege.
Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2001): This code of practice outlines the support needed for a child with a special educational need and how to provide that support. A child has a special educational need when he/she have a greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children his/her age or has a disability which prevents him/her from making use of some educational facilities of a kind.(DFES Publication,2001:6). In addition, a special educational need child could also be a gifted and talented child. Every child is allocated a key person who takes their abilities and capabilities into account and plans activities to support them and also help develop them wholly.
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001): To cover everyone involved, the act has been broken into two parts.
Because this is such an important aspect of caring for children and young people, there are some legal requirements put in place to support it. They include;
The Human Right Act (1998): This act protects individual or children from being discriminated against. It also means that every child has a right to education and as such no child should be denied that privilege. It allows children as well as their family freedom of thoughts, practices of their religion and allows all family to be respected. It celebrates diversity in general. The setting makes it a priority to phone up parents of every child who is absent to check why they were absent and if they were ok. By doing this they are trying to give every child the right to education and not preventing them from enjoying that privilege.
Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2001): This code of practice outlines the support needed for a child with a special educational need and how to provide that support. A child has a special educational need when he/she have a greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children his/her age or has a disability which prevents him/her from making use of some educational facilities of a kind.(DFES Publication,2001:6). In addition, a special educational need child could also be a gifted and talented child. Every child is allocated a key person who takes their abilities and capabilities into account and plans activities to support them and also help develop them wholly.
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001): To cover everyone involved, the act has been broken into two parts.