A new consultation draft of the NDCS Quality Standards for Resourced Provisions has been published, setting out a unified framework to improve outcomes for deaf children and young people in mainstream schools.
Developed from ten years of professional guidance and collaboration, the draft brings together evidence from education, health, and families into eight clear domains. Each domain highlights why it matters, minimum expectations, good practice, and measurable outcomes.
The aim is to create a simpler, evidence-based framework that supports inclusion in the classroom, strengthens accountability for schools and local authorities, and promotes better life chances for deaf pupils.
This consultation invites views from across the community — including Teachers of the Deaf, school leaders, parents and carers, young people, audiologists, speech and language therapists, commissioners, and local authority managers.
Your input will help shape national standards that are ambitious, realistic, and rooted in lived experience.
👉 To read the draft and share your views, visit: www.hear2learn.com/education
