PART 3SUPPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS

Additional learning needs co-ordinator

Additional learning needs co-ordinator functions at a school

29.  The tasks an additional learning needs co-ordinator at a school is responsible for carrying out, or ensuring are carried out, are—

(a)identifying a pupil’s additional learning needs and co-ordinating the making of additional learning provision that meets a pupil’s additional learning needs,

(b)securing relevant services that will support a pupil’s additional learning provision as required,

(c)keeping records of decisions about additional learning needs and individual development plans,

(d)promoting a pupil with additional learning needs’ inclusion in the school and access to the school’s curriculum, facilities and extra-curricular activities,

(e)monitoring the effectiveness of any additional learning provision made,

(f)advising school teachers at the school about differentiated teaching methods appropriate for individual pupils with additional learning needs,

(g)supervising and training school learning support workers who work with pupils with additional learning needs, and

(h)contributing to in-service training for school teachers at the school to assist the additional learning needs co-ordinator in carrying out the tasks referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e).