A-Z of practitioner terms
108 terms sorted by: Title
SLT
Description:Speech and Language Therapy/therapist
SLUG
Description:Swift Local User Group – A user group set up to support the use of the SWiFT Case Management System, used by Social care staff in Somerset.
SMART
Description:The tabular format used to record plans within the Integrated Children's System is intended to support social workers in developing SMART outcomes for children or young people; i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Related to the assessment and have a clear Time-scale for completion.
SMB
Description:Senior Management Board
SMT
Description:Senior Management Team
Social Exclusion
Description:To describe people or areas experiencing a combination of factors including unemployment, high crime, low incomes, and poor housing.
Social Inclusion
Description:A shorthand name for strategies designed to assist individuals, groups or areas to overcome the linked problems of deprivation including unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime rates, bad health and family breakdown
Somerset Impact
Description:SomersetIMPACT was established in 1996, bringing together large national and small local voluntary organisations working with families of children with any special need or disability. The aim was to raise awareness of the needs of those families, and increase knowledge of resources and skills within the voluntary sector.
SOP
Description:Standard Operating Procedures
Special Educational Needs
Description:The Education Act 1996 defines a pupil as having a special educational need if he or she has 'a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for him'. For the purposes of the Act, children are defined as having a learning difficulty if they: a) Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than most children of the same age; b) Have a disability that prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities generally provided for children of the same age; c) or are under compulsory school age and would be likely to fall within one of the above definitions if special provision was not made for them.