“Very few children with special educational needs get asked ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’”
The words of Ellen Atkinson, from Preparing for Adulthood, speaking to teachers at a recent event hosted by special needs association nasen.
She continued: “They rarely get work experience and when they do, it happens within the school setting. They don’t go out into the real world of work. We need to think about life outcomes, and change our perceptions of what these young people can achieve.”
In the London Borough of Waltham Forest, a post-16 transition initiative called Project SEARCH aims to help do just that.
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