ABSTRACT
The consultation Special Educational Needs Green Paper (DfEE 1997) and resultant Programme of Action (DfEE 1998) show the current Government’s commitment to the increased inclusion of pupils with SEN in mainstream schools. […] The Government suggests that inclusion should be seen as a ‘process’ rather than merely as ‘placement’ of pupils in a mainstream school. However, it is clear in these documents that some pupils are seen as more problematic than most when it comes to the achievement of inclusion. These pupils are generally perceived as those whose special educational needs fall into the area of emotional and behavioural diffi culties (EBD). Both documents (DfEE 1997; DfEE 1998) highlighted pupils with EBD as constituting a greater challenge for inclusion than all other areas of SEN.
