A context focused workshop exploring how policy, terminology, provision, and service structures shape school based practice across the UK and Ireland.
Understand the policy and practice context shaping sensory integration work in schools across the UK and Ireland.
This workshop situates school based sensory integration practice within the policy, terminology, and service realities of the UK and Ireland. It considers how education, health, and care systems influence provision, role clarity, assessment language, and what schools think AHPs are for. It is designed to help participants work more confidently within the systems they actually have.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe key features of the school based policy and practice context across the UK and Ireland
- identify factors that shape provision, terminology, and service delivery
- discuss tensions between ideal practice and real world systems
- reflect on how policy context affects their own work
- locate their practice more confidently within current education, health, and care systems
Participants will learn it through policy and practice mapping, discuss it with colleagues from similar service contexts, apply it to their own systems, reflect on tensions and opportunities, and take it back into practice with stronger contextual awareness.