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Glossary
Additional Support
Specialist support provided over and above what is generally provided by an education Authority for children or young people of the same age in schools.
Additional Support Needs
Your child has additional support needs if they need extra support (compared to their classmates) to get the most out of school and achieve their full potential.
ASN Tribunals
The Tribunal make decisions on whether an education Authority has carried out its duties under some parts of the Additional Support for Learning Act. They are completely independent of education Authorities and the Scottish Executive and by lay the education Authority must do what the tribunal decides.
Advocate
Someone chosen by you to conduct discussion on your behalf with an education Authority or to make representations to the authority.
Agencies
The word agencies refers to the services that might support your child, for example education Authorities, social work departments, health boards and the voluntary sector.
Assessment
An ongoing process of gathering, structuring and making sense of information about your child and their circumstances, in order to inform decisions about the actions necessary to maximise their potential.
Carer
Includes parents and other people with parental responsibilities, public foster carers, relatives and friends who are caring for children under supervision requirements and close relatives, such as siblings or grandparents caring for children who are not looked after or are under home supervision.
Child
A child in anyone who is under 16.
Code of Practice
Official guidance on the Additional Support for Learning Act. The Code has a legal status and education Authorities, social work departments and health boards must ‘have regard’ to it.
Complex Support Needs
For the purposes of a co-ordinated support plan, this is a need which has or is likely to have a significant adverse affect on the school education of the child or young person.
csp
Co-ordinated Support Plan - a document to help plan the provision of services for children or young people whose additional support needs arise from complex, or multiple factors, which have a significant adverse effect on their school education and are likely to last at least a year and which require support to be provided by an education authority and at least one other non-education service or agency.
ASL Co-ordinator
Someone appointed by the education Authority to co-ordinate the support your child receives, in line with their csp.
Dispute Resolution
The involvement of an independent, external adjudicator to examine the reasons for disagreement between parents, or young person and an education Authority, over the exercise by the Authority of any its duties or functions under the Act and to make recommendations for both parties aimed at resolving the dispute.
Early Years
A general term usually referring to children aged 0-3 years old, it can also be used as a description of services, for example early years care and education.
Independent Adjudication
See Dispute Resolution
Mediation
A voluntary process whereby an independent third party seeks to help those in disagreement to reach an agreed resolution of their differences. It is most likely to be used when you and the education Authority disagree about the support your child needs.
Parent
Any person who is liable to maintain a child, has parental responsibilities or has care of a child or young person, including guardians.
Placing Request
Written request made to education Authority for your child to attend a particular school.
Pre-School
This means children who are aged three or four and who are using their free entitlement to pre-school education. In law this is called a ‘prescribed pre-school child’.
Record of Needs
From the previous Special Educational Needs system, a Record of Needs was the formal plan of support to be provided to a child with SEN.
Scottish Executive
The Scottish Executive is the devolved government of Scotland. The Scottish Executive is split into departments with responsibility for different areas, for example the Education Department.
Staged Intervention
A system used by schools and nurseries to make sure that your child’s difficulties are identified and supported as early as possible and with the least possible interruption and interference in their life.
Transitions
Changes in education, for example, starting nursery school, moving from primary to secondary school, transferring schools within or outwith an education Authority’s area.
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