The Education Act 1996 Act put in place a duty on local authorities to publish behaviour support plans which have well-understood arrangements for pupils with behaviour difficulties, which children with ADHD have. It plans to meet the full range of their special educational needs. Unfortunately, there are links between behavioural problems and failure at school (Walker, Colvin & Ramsey, 1995). This indicates that many children with ADHD do fail school. This could lead to future unemployment, or even crime. To overcome this, the Government put in place strategies on inclusion (DfES, 2001), in the code of practice, which told mainstream schools to meet needs of all children and to focus on raising their levels of achievement (Bennett, 2006).
