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The first year of working as reported by consultants in child and adolescent psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher Wardle
Christopher Wardle*
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Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dryden Clinics for Children and Adolescents, Wonford, Exeter
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The Education Act (1981) was brought into effect on 1 September 1983. Explanatory and guidance documents were published in 1983. The Education Act has effects on the work of child and adolescent psychiatrists in two ways. Firstly it affects those in-patient and day units that have education on the premises. Secondly it affects the placement of children who have special educational needs because of emotional or behavioural problems, the children who in the past would have been deemed maladjusted. While child psychiatrists should be involved in all cases where emotional and behavioural problems are the main issue, they will also be involved with some of the children who have special educational needs because of intellectual and learning difficulties, children who in the past were deemed educationally subnormal. These children between them constitute a high proportion of those who will, under the new Act, be subjects of statements of need.

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Education Act 1981
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 5 - 8
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986

References

1. Department of Education and Science (1983) Joint Circular Assessments and Statements of Special Educational Needs. Circular 1/83.Google Scholar
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4. The Warnock Report (1978) Special Educational Needs: Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (the Warnock Report). Cmnd 7212. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
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