Today's publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review is an important step towards delivering a richer, more inclusive curriculum that enables students to achieve their full potential. We cannot continue with a system where so many children are consistently underestimated year after year, judged to be falling short of rigid age-related expectations and where schools and wider services may have misidentified or not understood their needs.
As the Government plans major reform of the education system, we look forward to working with partners across the education system to address these concerns.
This will mean taking forward the review’s recommendations that are fundamental to breaking down the barriers facing students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), including:
- Developing evidence-led guidance on adaptations to curriculum and teaching for children and young people with SEND
- Building inclusive approaches into school accountability measures, including additional and alternative measures to sit alongside Progress and Attainment 8.
- Get all parts of the exam system working together to build accessibility into the design of new specifications for GCSEs, A, T and V Levels.
Getting this right will be a crucial element of delivering the shared ambition of a genuinely inclusive education system that works for all learners.
You can read the government’s response to the independent review of the curriculum, assessment and qualifications system in England here.