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in regards for 5 year olds receiving funding to support these students.

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Is too restricted and many of our tamariki are not considered for the support out there.

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Are already stretched thin in kura auraki - finding support for practitioners of tikanga and reo a few and far between.

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We have just had to fight to get support for a 5 year old despite the referrals from 2 professionals.  Parents can not afford to go private and nor should they have to!

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We have just had to fight to get support for a 5 year old despite the referrals from 2 professionals.  Parents can not afford to go private and nor should they have to!

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Connecting with our own members in this sector. Hearing and sharing their stories.
Eventually - having a kapu ti with our local MP around their issues - hosted by local AT/AC.

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No SENCO at ECE/ Kohanga reo
NO funding available
No support and no training

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Create the connections and links for kaiako/ kaimahi in kura with the people and the types of jobs in Learning support.
Target - whānau members and provide incentives to be trained in these roles.

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Lack of money in the school budget to pay for all the hours needed.

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Lack of money in the school budget to pay for all the hours needed.

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How could we collect Needs based data - hit them with the facts...

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How could we collect Needs based data - hit them with the facts...

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We just have so many needs in South Auckland - every school has to play a game to stretch the funding as far as it possible can.

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We just have so many needs in South Auckland - every school has to play a game to stretch the funding as far as it possible can.

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No support available! Huge waitlists, the hoops and paperwork needed to jump through the hoops of getting support! 

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No support available! Huge waitlists, the hoops and paperwork needed to jump through the hoops of getting support! 

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The greatest need is competent adult support. Trained and empathetic and able to communicate functionally with whanau about the needs of tamariki.

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Support pulled away very quickly once students needs change

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Support pulled away very quickly once students needs change

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Behavioural needs that are not addressed with in school funding.

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Behavioural needs that are not addressed with in school funding.

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I get the sense we're all in the same boat. The same issue of insufficient staffing is affecting us all.  AAC

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I get the sense we're all in the same boat. The same issue of insufficient staffing is affecting us all.  AAC

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Is Education now an industry?

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The whole system is based around the old "ambulance at the bottom of the cliff" analogy. How about moving the ambulance back to the top?

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The whole system is based around the old "ambulance at the bottom of the cliff" analogy. How about moving the ambulance back to the top?

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Need for many more trained Learning Support Workers to train teachers with their expertise and provide resources for teachers.

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Need for many more trained Learning Support Workers to train teachers with their expertise and provide resources for teachers.

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Lack of support in smaller regions/locations

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Lack of support in smaller regions/locations

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Visiting the M.P.s office to discuss our concerns with funding.

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Visiting the M.P.s office to discuss our concerns with funding.

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Why is there a question about whether they have TA time and for some of the referrals. Assistive tech is stopped when they don't have TA time but you can't get TA time. Just a big circle of applications with one stopping another!

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Every worksite sends the Minister their learning support data with anecdotal evidence.

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Every worksite sends the Minister their learning support data with anecdotal evidence.

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The assumption that the additional needs can be "fixed". Funding has a time limit

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The assumption that the additional needs can be "fixed". Funding has a time limit

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Applications criteria is not reflective of extreme needs that are presenting to the centres - across ECE, schools....

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Applications criteria is not reflective of extreme needs that are presenting to the centres - across ECE, schools....

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Can't get a referrals to be picked up.

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Recommendations are one thing, money is another.  INCREASE THE FUNDING

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Recommendations are one thing, money is another.  INCREASE THE FUNDING

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It should be a role on its on - not tacked on to DP/AP or other position.

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Support workers do not receive any training and are charged with looking after tamariki with huge needs.

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Support workers do not receive any training and are charged with looking after tamariki with huge needs.

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Why do the MOE staff keep being moved around the areas without any consultation!!!!! How can you build those relationships, when you are continually moved around!!!

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Ministry funding does not cover the funding given to schools so how can there be money to train, let alone provide employment for them?

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Ministry funding does not cover the funding given to schools so how can there be money to train, let alone provide employment for them?

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Students who come from backgrounds of Trauma and its impact/effect on families and flow-on to school (Auckland Area Council)

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Students who come from backgrounds of Trauma and its impact/effect on families and flow-on to school (Auckland Area Council)

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Fund more learning support workers in MoE offices.

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Fund more learning support workers in MoE offices.

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How can we strengthen the transition from ECE to Secondary schools for our learners, So that they are not having to restart applications for support.

CMAC

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Paying for referrals - why do parents have to pay???? Why does it cost so much. Whānau in lower socio-economic areas are disadvantaged - those with more money are at an advantage - so much for equity in education!!!!!

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Paying for referrals - why do parents have to pay???? Why does it cost so much. Whānau in lower socio-economic areas are disadvantaged - those with more money are at an advantage - so much for equity in education!!!!!

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Lack of understanding of Māori medium and Immersion settings therefore a lack of funding and supports given to ākonga. Many ākonga fall through the gaps because of the care that these education streams have for their ākonga and their whānau. Whānau Māori also don't to engage with MOE staff that don't have a good understanding of te reo and kaupapa Maori - they're not necessarily just Māori staff either.

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Lack of understanding of Māori medium and Immersion settings therefore a lack of funding and supports given to ākonga. Many ākonga fall through the gaps because of the care that these education streams have for their ākonga and their whānau. Whānau Māori also don't to engage with MOE staff that don't have a good understanding of te reo and kaupapa Maori - they're not necessarily just Māori staff either.

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Taranaki AC - connect with whanau with parents, and join together to speak to a local MP. Invite a MP into a class with learners with severe and complex needs, have the parents there too. 

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Taranaki AC - connect with whanau with parents, and join together to speak to a local MP. Invite a MP into a class with learners with severe and complex needs, have the parents there too. 

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CMAC, the criteria needed to meet to get ORS funding

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Put more money into people.  More money into tier 2.

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Put more money into people.  More money into tier 2.

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the data we want is for/from ORS, ICS, SENCO, school counsellors referrals to our local support networks (e.g. speech therapy etc.). However, the next step is gaining access to time that allows us utilise this data at a 'quality' level

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the data we want is for/from ORS, ICS, SENCO, school counsellors referrals to our local support networks (e.g. speech therapy etc.). However, the next step is gaining access to time that allows us utilise this data at a 'quality' level

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3D referrals - waiting for 2-3 years for pick up. Too overloaded - not enough staff. 

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3D referrals - waiting for 2-3 years for pick up. Too overloaded - not enough staff. 

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What about families with no device or internet access that can't fill in the forms - they send out the forms and then don't follow up.

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Reduce class sizes.  Put a teacher aide in every classroom.

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Reduce class sizes.  Put a teacher aide in every classroom.

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Inequitable system that means those who can afford it get TA support. Puaotanga advises moving to fully funded 1:24 ratios which would mean all students who need support will get it

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Learning Support issues, Supporting teachers to identify learning behavioural needs. I still think my son is dyslexic but we dont know how to go about it. Have discussed this with teachers for years but still nothing has happened. This area needs to be improved.

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Expecting untrained people to work with the most challenging children in our system

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Expecting untrained people to work with the most challenging children in our system

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SLS - bring it back!! (student learning support. 

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SLS - bring it back!! (student learning support. 

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A lack of funding to provide the support the needs of their students

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A lack of funding to provide the support the needs of their students

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Work towards being fully unionised in this sector -

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Teaching in a high decile area that shares resources with schools who are low decile and we often get told that if we were down the road there would be resources but because of where we are our kids don't have anything we can apply for (CMAC)

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a gap in data is the ability to access data from the Ministry when our tamariki with high learning needs move schools and regions...

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a gap in data is the ability to access data from the Ministry when our tamariki with high learning needs move schools and regions...

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Teacher aides staffing needs to be based on needs in the school e.g. hours of needs that children with additional needs require.  It is not just behaviour but learning and processing, high health needs, drug affected babies....

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Teacher aides staffing needs to be based on needs in the school e.g. hours of needs that children with additional needs require.  It is not just behaviour but learning and processing, high health needs, drug affected babies....

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Anecdotal stories from our wonderful Teachers and TA's! 

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Anecdotal stories from our wonderful Teachers and TA's! 

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Diverse needs of all students in classroom mean that there is not enough time to dedicate towards the students that have the largest needs

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Diverse needs of all students in classroom mean that there is not enough time to dedicate towards the students that have the largest needs

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Our Ngā Aukaha convenor has put out a pānui to our rohe to increase the activism of this group.

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Our Ngā Aukaha convenor has put out a pānui to our rohe to increase the activism of this group.

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Finding students are needing a lot of support to deal with emotional regulation/ trauma and we don't have that avenue to provide counselling to students

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SENCO and all teachers should know what is available in terms of referrals.

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SENCO and all teachers should know what is available in terms of referrals.

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A lot of our SENCO's don't know this. 3D, RTLit, RM, RTLB, MoE Special Ed, CAMS - and what else is available when you have exhausted all of these.

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Lines of communication around employing Teacher Aides and funding is not clear, easy or necessarily helpful

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Lines of communication around employing Teacher Aides and funding is not clear, easy or necessarily helpful

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What is the retention and recruitment for our learning and support staff? Regionally? Nationally?

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What is the retention and recruitment for our learning and support staff? Regionally? Nationally?

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- No Te Reo Maori specialists
- ORS application takes away the child's rangitiratanga
- Not enough Maori staff
- Te Mahau separates the country
- Biggest Kahui Ako in Palmerston North allocated no LSCs
- Whanganui has no allocated LSCs at all
- No Pasifika specialists
-Pasifika learners currently are supported with ESOL
-Smoother transitions between ECE, Primary and Secondary would mean more continuity
- ORS criteria needs to be reviewed
- Attendance impacts support access for tamariki
- Was all of the funds from the COVID response used?

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Mental health - there are no enough children and young people's mental health staff. We need A LOT more. 

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Mental health - there are no enough children and young people's mental health staff. We need A LOT more. 

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LSRs (Learning Support Registers) - we should be using these to help look at what SHOULD be available. 

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LSRs (Learning Support Registers) - we should be using these to help look at what SHOULD be available. 

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These have been created to help with this.

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What creative ways are there for successful connections with whanau and learning support?

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What creative ways are there for successful connections with whanau and learning support?

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CMAC, I work in a special needs school and having teachers arrive that have very little knowledge about our children's disabilities and are realigning on their LSA/TA's

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How do you explain to parents that the application for ORS or whatever else has been declined when the application has so much evidence to support application-from teacher/doctors etc and although the child has a need - there are many far worse?

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Need to have more qualified and trained staff in the sector including TA's.
Diagnosis should equal funding.
Expand the criteria for funding part of the solution.
Agree to more resourcing in schools

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Lack of funding and resources for schools to be able to individualise their approaches and programs to cater for Pasifika students/family needs.

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Lack of access to counselling to support students with mental health needs

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Lack of access to counselling to support students with mental health needs

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Access to support is so limited.  We need more qualified staff that are able to move from the classroom to the MoE to offer their skills but to be fairly renumerated for that work.

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Access to support is so limited.  We need more qualified staff that are able to move from the classroom to the MoE to offer their skills but to be fairly renumerated for that work.

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Learning Support Workers could be located at a host school and go from there to schools in their cluster.

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Learning Support Workers could be located at a host school and go from there to schools in their cluster.

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Fill in LONG applications - get told "you are already doing everything you can". 

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Fill in LONG applications - get told "you are already doing everything you can". 

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We need to widen the criteria for learning support.  Ors funding criteria is very limited. Support needs to be there to support whanau as well as students

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We need to widen the criteria for learning support.  Ors funding criteria is very limited. Support needs to be there to support whanau as well as students

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What are the percentage of Kaitakawaenga administration positions

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What are the percentage of Kaitakawaenga administration positions

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The system not allowing for support to follow through from ECE level to primary.

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The system not allowing for support to follow through from ECE level to primary.

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- 100,000 conversations with community members and local MP
- Marae, Community events, local Newspaper/Media, Radio, TELL THE STORIES
- Whanau are aware
- Utilise Hashtag #LOUD4ECE on the day
- Leaflet drop (1 page / flyer)
- Limited text / Children's art
- Palmyrocks for ECE / treasure hunt for rocks

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A public drama scene outside a MPs office. The small pizza and multiple mouths metaphor. Perhaps multiple empty school bags being left outside a MPs office to symbolise those kids who don't get the support they need. A little message inside each bag 'this bag represents 10 kids with complex educational needs who receives no additional support.'

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A public drama scene outside a MPs office. The small pizza and multiple mouths metaphor. Perhaps multiple empty school bags being left outside a MPs office to symbolise those kids who don't get the support they need. A little message inside each bag 'this bag represents 10 kids with complex educational needs who receives no additional support.'

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Connect with whānau of tamariki who have no learning support but need it. 

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Connect with whānau of tamariki who have no learning support but need it. 

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How many questions have you had from families who think their child needs TA support and can't get it? Sooo many!

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The workload of our MOE Learning Support personnel is huge.  How do we retain our workforce and how we as a union best support them. They are exhausted.

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The workload of our MOE Learning Support personnel is huge.  How do we retain our workforce and how we as a union best support them. They are exhausted.

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What staff amount and referrals are received for each our RTLits, RTLBs, 3D etc?

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What staff amount and referrals are received for each our RTLits, RTLBs, 3D etc?

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We need more transparency around this.

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Why is getting TA or assistance, for our tamariki that need it, so difficult? 

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Why is getting TA or assistance, for our tamariki that need it, so difficult? 

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AAC
ITE NEEDS to cover, with quality and depth, practical steps and content related to learning support in the classroom, and the ins and outs of funding and how the system works. This needs to be a compulsory part of courses. New educators often go through their degree with little to no course content, and this has a major flow on effect to the start of your teaching career.

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- Telling personal stories
- Our pou for Nga Aukaha is Rangatiratanga

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Reach out to parents to tell their stories

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Reach out to parents to tell their stories

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Panel Discussion event inviting all local key stakeholders to attend?

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Panel Discussion event inviting all local key stakeholders to attend?

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Videos from schools with staff telling the stories to protect the children.  These can then be played on Social Media.

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Videos from schools with staff telling the stories to protect the children.  These can then be played on Social Media.

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There are not enough Māori speaking RTLB's for Māori Medium education - Auckland region

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Letters from parents outlining what quality learning support has meant for their whānau. And letters from parents who can't access learning support and what that means for their whānau.

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What about asking MPs to walk with you for a day or half day to see what it is like or asking them to a review and intake meeting so that they see what the referrals entail

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What about asking MPs to walk with you for a day or half day to see what it is like or asking them to a review and intake meeting so that they see what the referrals entail

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Teachers are expected to record the data. I have to do this after school EVERY DAY if I want children in my class to get learning support. If I don't record their needs, their applications don't go through because our SENCO is also a full-time teacher

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It is all about people and the resource of people.  4 out of the 5 major asks all refer to people funding and the PD would then upskill those people

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It is all about people and the resource of people.  4 out of the 5 major asks all refer to people funding and the PD would then upskill those people

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Our Ngā Aukaha covenor for Te Waiariki rohe shared our process so far.  The zoom has helped us gain momentum.  Jan Tineti is going to be contacted.  Involve whānau in our stories of my child missed out...

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Our Ngā Aukaha covenor for Te Waiariki rohe shared our process so far.  The zoom has helped us gain momentum.  Jan Tineti is going to be contacted.  Involve whānau in our stories of my child missed out...

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Letters from parents outlining their struggles and issues with the different agencies. Having a SENCO that can put you in the right place, proper support - CMAC

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Letters from parents outlining their struggles and issues with the different agencies. Having a SENCO that can put you in the right place, proper support - CMAC

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MP visits during this week from members of the Wellington Area Council

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MP visits during this week from members of the Wellington Area Council

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Get whānau stories about how their child is experiencing difficulties.  

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Get whānau stories about how their child is experiencing difficulties.  

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Do the public out there even understand the impact of special needs children in the classroom - the good they bring as well as the challenges.    We need that parental involvement to broadcast this more.

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Do the public out there even understand the impact of special needs children in the classroom - the good they bring as well as the challenges.    We need that parental involvement to broadcast this more.

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I have so many things to juggle as a teacher.
recording data to get extra support for my children WHILE I am teaching is a completely unreasonable expectation. I have to do this after school each day or during my miniscule break times

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Postcards to MPs to be a parent voice.  They are the voters!

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Postcards to MPs to be a parent voice.  They are the voters!

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Getting the media onboard - waiting lists at our special needs schools.

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Te Tau Ihu will organise a group of teachers from primary and ECE to visit our Labour MPs and share our stories

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Te Tau Ihu will organise a group of teachers from primary and ECE to visit our Labour MPs and share our stories