The government will spend £13 million trialling a project to test an “innovative delivery model” to improve support for neurodiverse children in primary schools.
A “Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools” pilot was successful in the third round of the government’s shared outcomes fund, which exists to tackle “some of the most difficult social, environmental and economic challenges” facing the country.
The project will “test an innovative delivery model to improve access to specialist support in mainstream primary schools, upskilling those settings to meet a range of neurodiverse needs”.
It will do this by “deploying specialist clinical and education functions to shape wholeschool provision, build parental confidence and upskill school staff in meeting the needs of neurodiverse pupils, leaving a sustainable impact after the funded period”.
