Developing definitions of local authority services and guidance for future development of the Children in Need Census by Gatehouse, M, Ward, H, Holmes, L

Exclusion from School and Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. by Fintan O’Regan

“…Students with special educational needs (SEN) are more likely to be permanently excluded than pupils without SEN (Department for Children, Schools and Families 2009). In this review paper, I will examine the role of underlying behavioural difficulties in school exclusion and specifically explore the potential role of ADHD in disruptive behaviours. …”
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Parent support adviser pilot evaluation: Second interim report by Strand, S, Lindsay, G, Davis, H, Cullen, M, Band, S, Cullen, S, Davis, H, Hasluck, C, Evans, R, Stewart-Brown, S

“…The Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) commissioned the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) to evaluate the PSA pilot programme from September 2006- August 2008. …”

Governing education through data in England: From regulation to self-evaluation by Ozga, J

“…The paper links the shifting relations between the central department of education (variously known between the 1980s and the time of writing as the Department of Education and Science [DES], Department for Education and Skills [DfES] and the Department for Children, Schools and Families [DCSF]), the local education authorities and the schools to the growth and development of data-based systems of inspection and performance management, and suggests that the massive growth of data has unbalanced the relations of governing and created highly centralised system steering. …”

Learning and digital inclusion: the ELAMP project by Kate D'Arcy

“…The Electronic Learning and Mobility Project (ELAMP) was a nationally funded project by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which ran from 2004 to 2010. …”
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Minority ethnic pupils in the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. DCSF Research Report RR-002 by Strand, S

Early education pilot for two year old children: evaluation by Smith, R, Purdon, S, Schneider, V, La Valle, I, Wollny, I, Owen, R, Bryson, C, Mathers, S, Sylva, K, Lloyd, E