Each element of the process including the letter/ statement implies a lot about the candidate. Is it obviously AI generated with Americanised spellings and generic? Perhaps that means a lack of attention or care to the specific role or a strategy for improving poor written skills? TBD at interview?

I agree more children in more inclusive classrooms would be ideal. But unless the wider support of targeted interventions, more PPA for teachers, more training is provided alongside the funding to do the above this is just another initiative we will be lamenting the failure of in 5 years

I could do with the DfE and Ofsted posting on here though for the opportunity to challenge them. 😉

Each intake sees at least 4/5 of these students. Plus those whose EHCPs demand high level support there simply isn’t the funding or the staff available in the labour market to support all of these students hence the decline into secondary. Better paid support staff might help?

One of the big issues I have seen in the last couple of years is the sheer number of students who come up to secondary (without an identified SEND need or EHCP) who were successfully included in Primary school by long term 1:1 support or other high cost interventions which are sadly not replicable