Identifying ALN and Evidencing the Need for ALP

Details Of The Course

When progress depends on sustained support, a learner’s difficulty may call for ALP. Learn how to apply the section 2 ALNET threshold in practice.

Disagreement around IDPs can begin with how a learner’s difficulty, its impact on learning and the need for additional provision have been understood and explained.

This practical masterclass is designed for ALNCOs, senior leaders and practitioners responsible for identifying when a learner’s learning difficulty or disability may call for Additional Learning Provision (ALP).

Participants will explore how learner need interacts with task demand, curriculum expectations and the learning environment, and how response to support can provide important evidence. A learner may appear to be making progress because sustained adaptation, adult mediation, scaffolding or environmental adjustment is already in place.

The session will support participants to:

Apply the two-stage section 2 test in practice

Distinguish between ordinarily available support and ALP

Recognise when progress may be contingent on sustained support

Consider what response to support tells us about persistent need

Develop clearer, evidence-informed Section 2A learner profiles

Strengthen consistent and defensible professional judgement

This session is particularly relevant for schools seeking to improve the quality of ALN decision-making, strengthen Section 2A, reduce disagreement around IDP decisions and ensure fair and equitable recognition of need.

The key question is not simply, “Is this learner making progress?” but “What is enabling that progress, and what does the learner continue to require to access and benefit from learning?”