Special Education and Special Needs Learning Plans

Detects special education and special needs learning plans, including Queensland individual education / special needs plans with children's disability and learning-support details, goals, adjustments, and review dates, and equivalent special education plan records in Australian education contexts.

Type

keyword_list

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

Medium confidence: keyword-based detection requires corroborative evidence for accurate identification.

Jurisdictions

au

Regulations

HRIPA (Cth), IPA 2009 (Qld), My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Frameworks

ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2

Data categories

pii, children, health, education, government

Scope

narrow

Risk rating

8

Should match

• Individual education plan review meeting. — Exact 65 discovery probe - plan phrase without populated student-plan fields
• Individual education plan - student name, year level, learning goals, and review date recorded. — Exact 75 probe - populated plan fields without Queensland education-authority evidence
• Education Queensland individual education plan - student name, year level, learning goals, responsible teacher, and review date recorded. — Exact 85 probe - populated plan plus Queensland education-authority evidence
• Individual education plan (IEP) with verified disability and learning support — Test match 1
• QLD Education Adjustment Program: special needs reasonable adjustment — Test match 2
• Special education support plan for student with learning difficulty — Test match 3

Should not match

• Special needs of the business — Non-match 1
• Education reform announcement — Non-match 2
• Sample template for a learner support record: learner name, year, goals, review date. — Adjacent template language is not a populated special-needs plan
• The public policy discusses classroom adjustment planning requirements. — Public policy has no special-needs-plan primary or populated student fields
• Individual business continuity plan for special operational needs. — Sibling planning language does not satisfy the education-plan primary

Known false positives

• Generic special needs or education references. Mitigation: Require IEP, EAP, or verified disability specific terms.