The pdnet Standards provide a practical structure for schools and settings to self-evaluate current provision and reflect on the effectiveness of their organisation in meeting the diverse needs of children and young people with physical disability. A set of Standards has been developed for all three educational phases: Early Years, Schools & Post-16. Four key areas identify the knowledge, skills, actions and attitudes needed to successfully support and nurture a learner with a physical disability:
Standard 2: Identifying and assessing need
Standard 3: Meeting diverse need
Standard 4: Enabling individual outcomes
Self-evaluation Tool
A FREE, simple way to evaluate your
school or setting against the pdnet Standards
- Free to use
- Easy to navigate
- Complete action plan as you go
- Generate and print PDF report
- Revisit to update progress
- Upload evidence to support judgements
- Saves automatically
The process is simple
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Read through the Standard statements using the coloured tabs. Click ‘read more’ to explore each standard in detail and to access supporting resources.
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Record your judgement by selecting the most appropriate option — established, developing or not yet developed.
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Upload evidence to support judgements and recognise strengths. Make notes in the text box provided or upload supporting documents.
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Plan actions to address any areas for improvement. This can be revisited and updated at any time.
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Click ‘run report’ to generate a PDF which summarises your judgements, actions and evidence for you to print or share easily with others.
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To demonstrate progress, each time your self-evaluation is updated you will be able to generate a new report. All reports will be saved in case they’re needed at a later date.
Download a PDF version
Standards for Early Years
There are almost 33,500 children and young people with physical disability within our education system. Each one of these learners has a unique set of needs which affects their access to and engagement in learning tasks and activities.
Responding to these individual needs and overcoming barriers to learning doesn’t happen automatically. It needs informed and imaginative problem-solving, at an individual and organisational level, and for the educational setting, the learner, their family and the professional team around them to work together to develop personalised solutions.
The pdnet ‘Standards for Children and Young People with Physical Disability’ enable staff in educational settings, both mainstream and special, to meet the unique needs of learners with physical disability as well as other non-disabled peers and to support “every teacher to develop as a teacher of children and young people with SEN and disabilities.”
Tip! The Standards work most effectively when you download and view them in Adobe Acrobat Reader. This will also allow you to input and save information to revisit at a later date. If you input any information whilst viewing the Standards in your web browser this will not be saved.
Standards for Schools
There are almost 33,500 children and young people with physical disability within our education system. Each one of these learners has a unique set of needs which affects their access to and engagement in learning tasks and activities.
Responding to these individual needs and overcoming barriers to learning doesn’t happen automatically. It needs informed and imaginative problem-solving, at an individual and organisational level, and for the educational setting, the learner, their family and the professional team around them to work together to develop personalised solutions.
The pdnet ‘Standards for Children and Young People with Physical Disability’ enable staff in educational settings, both mainstream and special, to meet the unique needs of learners with physical disability as well as other non-disabled peers and to support “every teacher to develop as a teacher of children and young people with SEN and disabilities.”
Tip! The Standards work most effectively when you download and view them in Adobe Acrobat Reader. This will also allow you to input and save information to revisit at a later date. If you input any information whilst viewing the Standards in your web browser this will not be saved.
Standards for Post‑16
There are almost 33,500 children and young people with physical disability within our education system. Each one of these learners has a unique set of needs which affects their access to and engagement in learning tasks and activities.
Responding to these individual needs and overcoming barriers to learning doesn’t happen automatically. It needs informed and imaginative problem-solving, at an individual and organisational level, and for the educational setting, the learner, their family and the professional team around them to work together to develop personalised solutions.
The pdnet ‘Standards for Children and Young People with Physical Disability’ enable staff in educational settings, both mainstream and special, to meet the unique needs of learners with physical disability as well as other non-disabled peers and to support “every teacher to develop as a teacher of children and young people with SEN and disabilities.”
Tip! The Standards work most effectively when you download and view them in Adobe Acrobat Reader. This will also allow you to input and save information to revisit at a later date. If you input any information whilst viewing the Standards in your web browser this will not be saved.