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Happy, safe and achieving their
potential: a standard of support for children and young people in
Scottish schools.
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There is also an executive summary document
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The main part of the document concerns the 10
standards for personal support for school students and applies to all sectors
of school education. You should read the report in
conjunction with Personal
Support in Scottish Schools, HMIe, 2004.
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The Discipline Task Group (DTG) report, Better Behaviour
- Better Learning, made 36 recommendations aimed at improving
discipline in schools. One of the recommendations states:
"There should
be a comprehensive review of the nature and purpose of guidance, both at primary and
secondary school levels, and of the training of guidance staff."
This links another
recommendation, to be implemented at school level, which states:
"Schools should
give consideration to integrating the work of learning support, behaviour support and
guidance into a single overall framework of pupil support in order to achieve a more
holistic approach to supporting the needs of all children and young people."
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The
National Review of Guidance was published in February 2005 under the title
Happy, Safe and Achieving their
Potential:
a standard of support for children and young people in
Scottish schools
(SEED,
February 2005)
The National Review
of Guidance was undertaken in response to the recommendation of the
Discipline Task Group to review the nature and purpose of guidance in the
context of integrating the different kinds of support in school through
learning support, behaviour support and guidance.
The review set out to describe
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common
principles for the development of Personal Support to pupils in Scottish
schools
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a standard of support for pupils and parents
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the respective roles of school staff, authorities and
others in developing and delivering effective personal support in
schools.
The review recognised the strengths of
Scottish schools in supporting pupils and the progress that has been made
in guidance and pupil support since the 1960s and the key influence of
‘More than Feelings of Concern’ (Scottish Central Committee on Guidance,
1986).
The standard is based on a
vision for caring school communities
There are
10 standards for personal support in schools under 3
headings
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