2.5 Universal Entitlement

All children and young people need support to help them learn and develop. The needs of the child or young person should always be central to the identification, planning and provision of support. Support should be appropriate, proportionate and timely.

Section 1.1 highlighted that the ASL Act provides a framework for identifying and providing support for children and young people who face a barrier or barriers to learning.

Further information on universal and targeted support will be explored in section 3.

The Building the Curriculum document series provides advice, guidance and policy for a wide range of different aspects of Curriculum for Excellence for practitioners, schools and education authorities. All of the documents within the series are relevant to support the development of inclusive education in particular, Building the Curriculum 3 (BtC3) sets out a range of entitlements for all children. These include the commitment that every child and young person is entitled to support to enable them to:

gain as much as possible from the opportunities which Curriculum for Excellence can provide and move into a positive and sustained destination.

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The full series can be downloaded in section 6.