Planning for the move to Secondary School - can anyone help?

[EduStudent]

Bit of a cheeky request, but here goes

Are there specific guidelines for planning the move up to secondary school? I'm writing an essay on the transition for pupils with SEN/ASC in particular and can't seem to find one, though lots of the literature seems to imply that there are guidelines which recommend beginning the planning in Y5.

Any suggestions?

Look in the SEN Code of Practice under Transition Planning. The guidelines are all there. Also in the SEN Toolkit.

Ahh, thank you! I have both of those but admitted defeat must have overlooked the relevant parts.

Its a bloody maze, isn't it?

You're an academic.

Just imagine how difficult us parents find it

Lot of excellent work is done by individual schools and support services in practice (rather than literature) but it seems that what is common place for some schools is unheard of by others.
Would Local Authority guidelines or advice be of value or does it need to be national ones ? I bet your LA woul have their on guidelines to put to schools.

I am assuming you've already looked at this website - but just in case you haven't:

www.autism.org.uk/working-with/education/educational-professionals-in-schools/breaking-down-barriers-to-learning/planning-for-transition.aspx

WetAugust that's what makes it so awful. I've spent the last 3 years trawling through government guff and this defeated me. How anyone manages to actually find their way through it and manage it when its their own child their fighting for, I can't even begin to imagine

BackforGood I've been working through a lot of the LA stuff, but a lot of it seemed to allude to guidelines without specifying what they were and you're right, I've heard lots but finding anything written on it, let alone academic research, is a lot trickier.

bigbluebus Thanks, I had seen it but forgotten about it!