Support for Learners

Aims and Purpose

The Highland Council Additional Support Needs Team provides strategic development and planning for children and young people with additional support needs and also their families and those professionals and agencies who work with them.

The team include people with a background in a range of support areas, from both universal services and more targeted services.

Team members work together with other Council staff, Voluntary Organisations, with colleagues from NHS Highland and with the children/young people and their parents/carers, to improve services for children and young people with additional support needs across the Highland Council area.

Additional Support Needs Team Members

Bernadette Cairns, Senior Manager
Barrie Forbes, Additional Support for Learning Co-ordinator
Jane Baines, Development Officer
Development Officer, SEBD
Marlyn Campbell, Development Officer Disability
Louise McClatchey, Principal Educational Psychologist
Calina MacDonald, Administrative Assistant

You can direct concerns or raise issues with any member of the team.

Complaints and feedback on the service can be provided directly to: bernadette.cairns@highland.gov.uk

Enquire

Please find below information and links for Parents, Carers, Children, Young People and Professionals regarding Additional Support Needs.

Enquire is the Scottish advice service for additional support for learning

Operated by Children in Scotland, Enquire offers independent, confidential advice and information on additional support for learning through:

a telephone helpline - 0845 123 2303
an email enquiry service - info@enquire.org.uk
an online enquiry service
two websites -
www.enquire.org.uk/ (for parents/carers and practitioners) and www.enquire.org.uk/yp/ (for children and young people)

Enquire also provide a range of clear and easy-to-read guides and factsheets explaining everything from ‘additional support in the early years’ to ‘what planning should take place for moving on from school’.