Teachers

Role of the School

Under the Planning Duty, schools are obliged to develop individual Accessibility Plans. Schools also have a responsibility to provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils, including dyslexics.

They have a key role in planning to increase access to the curriculum for disabled pupils.  In focusing on this part of the duty and considering barriers to the curriculum, schools should consider the needs of a range of disabled children.  Although it is likely that children with learning disabilities will have the greatest barriers to access, the majority of such children will have access provided through the statement of SEN, although statementing only recognises the most severe cases of dyslexia.

There is DfES guidance available to  all schools regarding the need to prepare their own Accessibility Plan, taking into consideration all aspects of disabled access and provision.  In future these individual school strategies will assist the LEAs in targeting funding for Access Initiative.