Who is doing Pupil Inclusion?
Here is the directory of agencies or teams undertaking pupil inclusion work.
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Sacro aims to promote community safety across Scotland through providing high quality services to reduce conflict and offending. Sacro is committed to developing new and innovative ways of working and influencing the development of Government policies and legislation. It provides services in conflict resolution, criminal justice and youth justice based on the values of mutual respect, recognising and valuing diversity, personal responsibility, society's responsibility to all its members, capacity for change and to work together to reduce conflict and repair harm. Sacro also provides consultancy and training services, currently in community mediation, restorative justice and work with schools.
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Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. We work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face. Our organisation has been working in Scotland for more than 40 years.
We focus on challenging the ways in which children's rights are denied and on working with others to raise awareness and support for children's rights. At the moment, poverty, education, citizenship and discrimination are our top priorities in Scotland. We believe it is crucial that children should be engaged in shaping their own education and the life of their school and community.
Save the Children work extensively with young Gypsy Travellers and young refugees and asylum seekers to promote their rights, including the right to education.
Citizenship and Participation Project
Save the Children has been commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland to assist primary and secondary schools in Scotland to improve participation by children and young people in decision-making. Schools, local authorities and universities are currently involved as project partners. A wide range of strategies and examples of appropriate methodology will be incorporated in materials that will be distributed to all schools by Spring 2007. The materials will demonstrate good practice with regard to inclusion. Continuing professional support will be provided to teachers in using the materials provided.
For more information about the work of Save the Children in Scotland visit the website
The Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association (SEBDA) is a charitable organisation that exists to promote excellence in services for children and young people who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. SEBDA provides valuable support to professionals working in the field. SEBDA members receive the acclaimed journal 'Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties' and 'SEBDA News' as well as preferential rates for accredited distance education training and professional development events. Members value networking with professionals working in different settings and local authority areas. For over fifty years the Association has represented the field at regional and national level, contributing to government consultations and to major research initiatives.
For more information visit www.sebda.org/
Our key aim is to put mediation into the mainstream, widely available and clearly understood as a first option for resolving disputes of all kinds in Scotland. Our Education Development Officer supports the development of peer mediation in schools across Scotland.
For more information please visit www.scottishmediation.org.uk
The Scottish Network for Parental Involvement in Children’s Learning aims to promote, support and develop professional practice in the involvement of parents and carers in their children’s learning. Objectives include:
- Promote parental involvement in children's learning.
- Raise the awareness of the relevant professionals of the powerful contribution that parents and the community make in children's learning and development.
- Identify, promote and share good practice.
- Raise awareness of research and evaluation in order to inform practice development.
- Identify common issues in continuing professional development and support training initiatives.
- Act as a body that can consult and be consulted.
- Promote support to professionals working with and on behalf of parents and children.
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The Scottish Youth Parliament meets four times a year to discuss issues which affect young people across Scotland and tries to propose innovative and sometimes radical solutions to these problems and situations. The Scottish Youth Parliament exists to give young people a voice in decisions which affect them.
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Skill Force uses mainly ex-Services instructors to deliver alternative curriculum provision throughout the UK. It was launched as a pilot in two Local Education Authorites in England in 2000 with funding from the Ministry of Defence and the DfES. Skill Force Scotland was created in the following year when MOD and SEED pilot funding was used to create a team in North Lanarkshire in 2001. In 2004 Skill Force became an independent not-for-profit charity when it was divested from the Ministry of Defence.
Skill Force has expanded across Scotland over the last five years and now has teams in six local authority areas: Edinburgh, Falkirk, Moray, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire and Stirling
Skill Force is ideal for students:
- Who wish to avoid or break negative behaviour patterns such as poor attainment, attendance and/or behaviour
- With a flair for vocational or practical subjects
- Who require positive role models
- Who are academically gifted but have become de-motivated
- Who have difficulty mixing or working with others
- Who respond to a less formal approach to teaching
Spark of Genius is a unique independent school which has developed a new approach to refocusing young people who have had problems maintaining a place in mainstream education. That approach centres around raising the self-esteem of pupils by using information and communications technology, high-tech, safe and invitational learning centres, and staff who build strong relationships with small groups of pupils and their families, which involves them in regular evening and weekend work.
Spark of Genius has learning centres across Scotland, in Paisley, Glasgow, Irvine, Dunoon, and Musselburgh.
In addition to a small residential children’s home in Newmilns, Ayrshire, which uses a variety of therapeutic approaches to the care of young people, Spark of Genius also operates a new approach to continuing the inclusion of young people within mainstream. In this approach, created in partnership with East Renfrewshire Council, Spark works with S1/S2 children with behavioural problems who require additional support to continue in mainstream.
This Inclusion Service uses various strategies which support and encourage young people to develop patterns of interaction which allow them to benefit from mainstream education rather than continue with behaviours which would inevitably lead to exclusion. Pupils are encouraged and given support to take responsibility for their behaviour and learning.
The Inclusion Service works closely with parents to formulate strategies which will better allow parents to support children at a vulnerable phase in their development
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STEP is based at Edinburgh University and funded by the Scottish Government. It’s remit is to develop and support inclusive educational approaches for Gypsies and Travellers. STEP aims to:
- Improve the educational opportunities of Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland
- Listen to and represent the views about education of Gypsy and Traveller children, young people and parents
- Encourage the development of a wide, diverse and flexible range of educational opportunities for Gypsies and Travellers
- Promote the development of inclusive practices both to support diversity in education and to address racism, harassment and bullying
- Enable all those engaged in education to know and respect historical cultural traditions as well as contemporary cultural practices and living circumstances of Gypsies and Travellers
- Support and promote inter-agency working which acknowledges the links between education, housing, health and other key social services
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Street Work helps those at risk on the street to make positive change, on their terms, at a pace that suits them, and in a way that achieves the highest possible standards of service. The Project aims include:
- Street work: to reach those at risk on the street and work with them using the most up-to-date education, support and prevention resources.
- Crisis management: to go out and find those in crisis and offer immediate practical help and advice to make them safer.
- Problem solving: to identify problems that affect people on the street and involve them in taking healthier and more positive actions towards resolving them.
- Doorway: to treat each individual as an equal, with dignity and respect, working on their terms and at their pace, towards realistic and sustainable change.
- Can do: to help individuals discover the confidence and self-esteem to recognise they have the ability to change their own lives for the better through counselling and support.
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