The death of the 2015 Special Educational Needs Code of Practice - and the parable of the drowning man -Should government have learnt lessons from listening to the voices of history, research and politicians? (Part I)

Hodkinson, Alan (2023) The death of the 2015 Special Educational Needs Code of Practice - and the parable of the drowning man -Should government have learnt lessons from listening to the voices of history, research and politicians? (Part I). Education 3-13. ISSN 0300-4279

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Abstract

Through employment of the ‘parable’ of the drowning man - part one of the research examines the systems of SEND management from the Warnock Report through to the operation of the Children and Families Act (CFA). It utilises extant literature to provide a voice from history with a second voice provided by analysing research relating to the CFA’s operation. The research concludes that voices of history and research reveal fault lines that serve to undermine and ultimately overtop government legislation. It is argued that such fault lines will continue to undermine policy and practice in SEND because a piety of government thought renders radical culture change impossible. In part two, a third voice is introduced by way of a thematic analysis of parliamentarian’s speeches since CFA implementation in 2014. A voice that, like those of history and research, attempted to provide wisdom and perhaps salvation of government legislation.

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Additional Information and Comments:	© 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Alan Hodkinson
Date Deposited:	17 May 2023 08:58
Last Modified:	29 May 2024 15:58
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3927

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