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PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY
The NSW Parliament’s General Purpose Standing Committee No 2 has called an inquiry into “the provision of education to students with a disability or special needs”.The PSA’s submission is based on the results of a survey we conducted of SLSO members at the beginning of 2010. The main points members made were:
- Students with a disability and their parents need the certainty of having a permanent SLSO to work with them – therefore permanency for all SLSOs is vital.
- Funding and resources (including SLSOs) for students with a disability in mainstream schools is grossly inadequate.
- Funding and resources for students with a disability in a special setting also needs to be improved.
- Support services, when they are provided, are excellent, but they are in short supply and need to be easier to access.
- Funds should be allocated to students based on their functioning capacity rather than their disability.
- Training of teachers, particularly casual teachers, to work with students with a disability need to be improved. The training is inconsistently provided across the state.
- Training for SLSOs should be made available more widely. Access to SLSO training is also inconsistent across the state.
Other submissions of interest:
#647 Primary Principals for Campbelltown/Macarthur#669 NSW Primary Principals Association
#672 NSW Secondary Principals' Council
