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New health visitors could be key to joining-up services to support children
3 Mar 2011
Newly recruited health visitors can better support children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities by joining-up services, according to Ann Gross, Director of early years, extended schools and special needs at the Department for Education.
The recruitment of an additional 4,200 health visitors was promised in the Department for Health’s Health Visitor Implementation Plan published in February. Speaking at a conference hosted by disabled children’s charity Kids, Gross said:
There needs to be a better join-up between education, health and social care. We’ve got an expanding number of health visitors coming into the system, so how can we use that mechanism to join-up better?
Gross confirmed that the forthcoming SEN green paper would include proposals on improving integrated working.
Many of the responses to the government’s call for views on the green paper demanded better multi-agency assessments, earlier intervention for families and a wider choice of provision.
Read the article from Children and Young People Now.
