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2.6 Signaling the need for interagency working
A Strategy for inclusion will only work if everyone concerned: pupils, teachers, parents and carers, ancillary staff, other educational professionals, health personnel and other agencies are consulted and encouraged to play their part. To do this, new ways of working together will have to be devised and supported. The strategy will indicate how this should happen. Collaborative working will include the sharing of resources to achieve common outcomes, is likely to require a great deal of staff development, and will rely on careful planning of roles and responsibilities.
2.7 Alleviating fears
The aspirations for this strategy are exacting ones, and can only be achieved if everyone works together on the basis of mutual trust and respect. The strategy should therefore help to alleviate the understandable fears held by staff and parents and carers that a move towards inclusion will mean arbitrary and unsupported change. The Strategy for inclusion is intended rather to reinforce and support the good practice already there in classrooms, and to help create a more flexible and responsive environment for learning and teaching to take place. Such further action as will be required will be carefully planned as part of a long-term strategy which will take time to fulfil.
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