Background: Following scandals such as Winterbourne view, Department of Health, (A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital, 2012) seeks changes in challenging behaviour services. A key part of this change is ensuring people with learning disabilities who use challenging behaviour services have more personalised support and their voices are…

Identification procedures and educational services for the county of Surrey (England) are described. Identification procedures consider students in the top one percent of ability who are then monitored by a senior staff member in each school who coordinates a suitable individualized learning program for each child. (Author/DB)

A day in an innovative elementary school in London. (JF)

Condensed from "The Instructor, Volume 78 (Dember 1968), 14-15.

Research has indicated that gifted children are not always recognized and that when they are, many are underachieving. This research describes the efforts of the Schools Council Project and the participation of eleven schools in Redbridge in identifying and developing the talents of gifted children. (Author/RK)

A brief overview of the mainstream of development in English primary education in the last 10-15 years is presented and linked to broader educational developments that have facilitated the establishment of teacher centers. (MM)

This article suggests that services for people with intellectual disabilities in England will need to undergo radical revision as agencies strive to implement person centered planning as described in the White Paper, "Valuing People." It further suggests that services need to become learning organizations, committed to values of…

This document includes special references to British open classrooms. (MK)