ABSTRACT
The Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs (DfE, 1994) provides the most far reaching guidance on this subject ever aimed at teachers in mainstream schools. The Code presents regulations and guidance for the implementation of the sections of the 1993 Education Act which pertain to special educational needs generally and therefore will affect the whole field of special education. But it is with special educational provision in mainstream primary and secondary schools where its impact will be the greatest. Therefore, this is the major focus of the handbook.
