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Offering a clear but critical overview and interrogation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice 2015, this book provides the context for understanding recent developments in SEND policy reform. It also considers implications for SEND professionalism and partnership working. The book also successfully links policy and theory to practice and has a focus on professional ethics. This book is aimed primarily at higher level students on Masters and professionals engaged in Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and is supported by chapter objectives, case studies, summaries of key concepts and annotated further reading suggestions.
List of contents
Part I: SEND Policy and Policy Reform
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the SEND Code of Practice 2015
Chapter 2: SEND Policy History and Approaches to Policy Reform
Chapter 3: Key Concepts and Controversies in the Field of SEND
Part II: SEND Professionalism and Professional Ethics
Chapter 4: Policy Technologies and the Enactment of the 2015 Code
Chapter 5: Professionalism and Ethics for SEND Practitioners
Chapter 6: Moral Dilemmas, Ethical Decision-Making and an Ethical Audit Framework
Chapter 7: Moral Stress, Ethical Differentiation and Ethical Discernment
Part III: SEND Partnership Working
Chapter 8: Partnership Working with Parents
Chapter 9: Multi-Agency Working and Inter-Professional Collaboration
Chapter 10: Working with the Individual
Summary
Offering a clear but critical overview and interrogation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice 2015, this book provides the context for understanding recent developments in SEND policy reform.
Report
This is a very welcome book that seeks to broaden and deepen understanding of the SEND Code of Practice as well as enabling readers to challenge it. It involves a novel in-depth historical and policy analysis and deserves a wide readership.
Brahm Norwich
