Recommendation 31

The Committee recognises that teachers and schools are facing rising levels of need to support neurodivergent students, without always having the adequate staffing, training or specialist support this requires. It is clear that further work is needed to support schools to understand and navigate this complexity. We therefore recommend that future legislation should place clearer duties on national and local government to strengthen the workforce needed to deliver ASL responsibilities, including national standards to improve teacher training, increased resource and capacity and wider access to specialist ASN professionals.