‘Helpful to all, harmful to none and crucial for some’

Devon County Council has written to schools and governors about the support for pupils, including SEND pupils that schools fund from their own budget, it’s called Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision (OAIP).

They have been working closely with parents, children, young people and schools to develop a framework to promote consistent OAIP across all primary and secondary schools in Devon. The framework brings together the simple, every day, low-cost, low-resource things that schools do which make a big difference to all children and support parents, children and young people to better understand the support that can be provided in their local mainstream school.

The Ordinarily Available Inclusive Education framework will go live on 8th July 2024 and will set out:

• Expectations that children and young people can have of their education setting to provide high quality, inclusive practice and what this looks like for all children and young people
• Approaches, provision and practice that is helpful to all, harmful to none and crucial for some
• Strategies that anticipate and therefore prevent common barriers for learning and support equity of access to the curriculum for all
• Simple adjustments and additions that teachers can make to their practice to enable positive learning environments for all students, in line with the teaching standards.

The second part of the framework focuses on Ordinarily Available Targeted Support for pupils with SEND. This is under development and will be shared later in the Autumn Term. Would you like more information about SEND?  DAG has produced a Busy Governance Guide to SEND to support all those involved in governance to understand this crucial area of provision.