Useful links - education
The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD)
The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) aims to promote excellence in the education of all deaf children, young persons and adults; to advance the status of teachers of the deaf; and to ensure and enhance the high quality of mandatory training of teachers of the deaf, and their continuing professional development.
Mr Paul A Simpson
BATOD Secretary
175 Dashwood Avenue
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP12 3DB
Email: secretary@batod.org.uk
Website: www.batod.org.uk
Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre
Department for Children, Schools and Families
The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Families is to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. We want to:
- make children and young people happy and healthy
- keep them safe and sound
- give them a top class education
- help them stay on track.
Department for Education, Northern Ireland
The Department of Education is responsible for the central administration of all aspects of education and related services in Northern Ireland.
DirectGov - Education and learning
Information for parents and young people on education, including preschool, school, 14 to 19 options, university and higher education, qualifications and adult learning.
Early Support
Early Support is for families with young disabled children. It is the Government’s recommended approach to co-ordinating services across England.
This website is for anyone who works regularly with very young children and for families. It explains how the Early Support programme is facilitating better coordination of information and service delivery in response to the objectives set by the Government green paper Every Child Matters.
Enquire - The Scottish Advice Service for Additional Support for Learning
Enquire is the Scottish independent advice and information service for additional support for learning (special educational needs). It is managed by Children in Scotland and funded by the Scottish Government.
Estyn - School inspection and educational training in Wales
Estyn is the office of Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales. It is independent of, but funded by, the National Assembly for Wales under Section 104 of the Government of Wales Act 1998. The Chief Inspector and her staff are civil servants.
FACE - Furthering Access to College Education for Deaf Students
The FACE website contains lots of essential information for deaf students preparing to go to college. The website is a collaboration betwen NDCS, BRITE, Donaldson's College, Jewel&Esk College, Glasgow Metropolitan College, Motherwell College and Sasli.
Headteachers' Association of Scotland (HAS)
The Headteachers' Association of Scotland (HAS) seeks to promote the highest standards of education in Scotland's secondary schools, provide for the needs and interest of members and to be a major factor in influencing educational policy at national and local level.
HAS
University of Strathclyde
Jordanhill Campus
Southbrae Drive
Glasgow
G13 1PP
Tel: 01292 293918
Fax: 01292 293918
Web: www.has-scotland.co.uk
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education - School inspection in Scotland
The inspections and reviews carried out by HMIE, allied to meaningful self-evaluation, are central parts of the approach to quality improvement in Scottish education. The effective combination of these two processes constitutes a powerful means of identifying strengths and priorities for improvement across the system.
On this website, you can find out about inspections, and find inspection reports for education settings in your area.
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal integrating and coordinating basic and applied research relating to individuals who are deaf, including cultural, developmental, linguistic, and educational topics.
Mary Hare Training
The Mary Hare training programme includes courses for education professionals, audiologists, health visitors, and social care professionals.
National Association of Head Teachers
The National Association of Head Teachers is the largest organisation of its kind in Europe. It has provided over a century of support to its members and speaks with authority and strength on educational issues covering early years, primary, secondary and special school sectors.
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is a national charity which aims to enhance the development and education of children in their early years, through the provision of support services to members.
NDNA is dedicated to the provision, support and promotion of high-quality care and education for the benefit of children, families and communities.
NDNA
National Early Years Enterprise Centre
Longbow Close
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD2 1GQ
Tel: 01484 40 70 70
Fax: 01484 40 70 60.
Email: info@ndna.org.uk
Website: www.ndna.org.uk
National Primary Headteachers Association (NPhA)
The National Priary Headteachers Association (NPhA) links primary headteachers throughout England with the aim of improving primary education. Its members are either individuals or, increasingly, those who belong to a similar group at LEA or regional level.
NPhA
Queniborough CE Primary School
Coppice Lane
Queniborough
Leicester
LE7 3DR
Email: npha@ntlworld.com
Web: www.primaryheads.org.uk
National Sensory Impairment Partnership (NatSIP)
The agreed purpose of NatSIP is:
- to improve educational outcomes for children and young people with sensory impairment, closing the gap with their peers, through joint working with all who have an interest in the success of these young people.
- to help children achieve more and fulfil the potential of children and young people who have SI.
- to promote a national model for the benchmarking of clear progress and impact criteria for children and young people who have SI.
- to support a well-trained SI workforce responsive to the Government agenda for education.
- to inform and advise the DfE and other national agencies on the education of children and young people with SI.
- to promote collaboration between services, schools, professional bodies and voluntary bodies working with children and young people who have SI.
- to promote collaborative working between education, health and social care professionals in the interest of children and young people who have SI.
To these ends NatSIP workstream activity is agreed, planned and monitored by the working partners and offers strong and effective support to providing tangible progress and impact for children and young people who have sensory impairment.
National Union of Teachers (NUT)
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) campaigns for better schools, more resources and improved conditions for pupils and for teachers.
Hamilton House
Mabledon Place
London
WC1H 9BD
Tel: 020 7388 6191
Fax: 020 7387 8458
Web: www.teachers.org.uk
Ofsted - School inspection in England
Ofsted inspect and regulate to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages.
The new Ofsted brings together the wide experience of four inspectorates to make a greater difference for every child, and for all young people and adult learners, in England. Their educational, economic and social well-being will promote our success as a country.
Preparing for Adulthood
Preparing for Adulthood is a two year programme (from November 2011) funded by the
Department for Education as part of the delivery support for
'Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational
needs and disability' green paper.
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy (RCSLT)
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) is the professional body for speech and language therapists and support workers.
It promotes excellence in practice and influences health, education and social care policies.
RCSLT
2 White Hart Yard London
SE1 1NX
Tel: 020 7378 1200
Email: info@rcslt.org
Web: www.rcslt.org
School Library Association
The SLA is committed to supporting everyone involved with school libraries, promoting high quality reading and learning opportunities for all. They provide advice and support, publications and training courses amongst other things.
Scottish Sensory Centre
For everyone who is involved in the education of deaf children, deafblind children and visually impaired children and young people, the young people themselves and their families.
The Scottish Sensory Centre promotes and supports new developments and effective practices in the education of children and young people with sensory impairments, that is; visual impairment, deaf and deafblind. It achieves this by means of CPD short courses, conferences, research and providing a postal resource library; and by dissemination of reports, research, course materials and new developments via this website, publications and presentations.
The SSC collaborates with: education authorities; schools and groups of teachers; voluntary organisations; parents groups; young people themselves.
Scottish Government - Education and Training
The home page for the Education and Training section of the The Scottish Government website.
Teachernet
Teachernet is an education website containing information, publication, research, online programmes and more on a range of school issues and subjects.
Teachernet - Acoustics
This section of the Teachernet website contains useful information on BB93, the design guide for schools. You can read about it, and download the documents from the website.
Transition Support Programme
The Transition Support Programme ran from October 2008 – 31 March
2011. The website contains all resources produced as part of
the programme. In November 2011 a new government programme was
announced. Find out more on the Preparing for Adulthood
website.
Welsh Assembly Government - Education and Skills
The Welsh Assembly promote lifelong learning from early years through to adult learning to help to improve opportunities for people at all stages of life, through Welsh and English, from school through college and university to workplace training.
They provide leadership, policy and guidance for a range of key stakeholders involved in education, lifelong learning and skills, in accordance with our strategy ‘The Learning Country’. They work closely with the many organisations involved with children’s services, learning and skills in Wales.
