When it comes to SEND units and Resourced Provisions, there is already a lot of variability in how well staff leading these are trained.

Maybe there could be a requirement for a national qualification (similar to the NPQ taken by SENCOs) for these staff.

Giving schools the funding and responsibility for meeting needs would require a significant level of training for them to be able to do so.

They would need to have a high level of accountability to ensure that children and families weren't being failed.

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In which case it is the reporting that is problematic, not the research.

(To be clear by the way, I am broadly in favour of isolation)

Yep, I was addressing Ben's concern about whether the sample in the study was too small and selective.

bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yes I agree that we should be cautious about applying data from one area to the system as a whole.

But it is a large and broad enough sample to be valid.

Around 34,000 children from 121 mainstream schools across Greater Manchester.

@oldandrewuk.bsky.social - This context is missing from your article. I would say (from experience) that the number of GM schools with isolation rooms is much higher than the national statistic of 60% that you refer to.

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