Records of Need in schools (FOI)

​​Request 689394842

​Provide breakdown over last 3 years in secondary schools 

1. How many students have a record of need per secondary school 

2. How many students fall under ARPs (additionally resourced provision) per secondary school SEMH, behaviour, RONs etc.

3. How many SEN teachers are employed per school 

4. How many specialist LSAs (learning support assistants) to accommodate those in ARPs, if any. If specialist, what training do they have? 

5. Confirm whether LSAs are on "teaching assistant" pay scales or civil servant pay scales 

6. Confirm whether students with needs have support in every lesson by a LSA

Response

1. The table below represents the total number of students per Government of Jersey secondary school who currently have a record of need (RoN).

Disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five are represented as '<5'.  The Department have determined that to disclose the exact number would likely breach the privacy of individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied

2. The table below represents the total number of students per Government of Jersey secondary school who currently have access to an additionally resourced provision (ARP).  

Please note for Le Rocquier, Nurture Additional Provision is an ARP dedicated to those with specific learning difficulties.

3. The Jersey SEND Code of Practice states that every teacher is a teacher of Special Educational Needs (SEN). All teachers are both responsible and accountable for the progress and development of all pupils in their class, including those pupils who access support from teaching assistants or specialist staff. Where support staff work with pupils with SEN, the teacher has overall responsibility for those pupils and must ensure that they make appropriate progress. 

You can read the Jersey SEND Code of Practice here: https://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Education/P%20SEN%20Code%20of%20practice%20%28Under%20Review%29%2020240214GW.pdf 

4. Each ARP within a Government of Jersey school has base funding for core staff. This includes Teachers, Key Workers, Teaching Assistants and Learning Support Assistants (LSA). Schools can allocate titles as they wish, however, Key Workers, Teaching Assistants and Learning Support Assistants are all part of the Teaching Assistant framework. One Government of Jersey school with an ARP currently has a post titled Learning Support Assistant. 

Government of Jersey schools publish information about training on their SEND Information reports on their websites.

5. LSAs are paid on the same pay scale as teaching assistants. 

6. All Government of Jersey schools apply appropriate support to suit the individual pupil’s needs and keep this under review. 

Articles Applied

Article 25 Personal information 

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018. 

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – 

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and 

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.