ABSTRACT
The school which is concerned about responding to the learning needs, interests and capacities of all its pupils, valuing all equally, will have procedures in place to monitor both the school’s response to, and the progress of the diversity of pupils in the school. Those who present schools with the greatest challenge are the small number with complex or more severe learning difficulties, probably with a statement of special educational needs. There is a larger group of children with less severe learning difficulties and a still larger group of pupils who have needs to which schools find a response difficult or to which they do not respond. The self-monitoring school must be aware of the extent to which it is responding to the challenges presented by the diversity of pupils’ needs in the school.
