Special Education and Special Needs Learning Plans
Detects special education and special needs learning plans for a named student - personalised learning plans, individual curriculum/education/support plans, Education Adjustment Program profiles and student support plans with disability, adjustment and goal details - when the plan phrase sits with populated student identifiers and plan fields.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence justification
- Medium: enforce tiers need a populated student identifier; 85 also needs a plan field and school/support evidence. Inclusion policies and professional-learning material stay at 65.
- Jurisdictions
- au
- Regulations
- Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Education (General Provisions) Act 2006 (Qld), Disability Standards for Education 2005 (Cth)
- Frameworks
- ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2
- Data categories
- pii, children, health, education, government
- Scope
- narrow
- Risk rating
- 8
- Platform compatibility
- Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported
Pattern
(?i)\b(?:personali[sz]ed\s+learning\s+plan|individual(?:ised)?\s+(?:curriculum|education(?:al)?|support|learning)\s+plan|education\s+adjustment\s+program(?:\s+profile)?|special\s+needs\s+(?:education\s+)?plan|student\s+support\s+plan|NCCD\s+adjustment)\bShould match
Individual education plan - Harbourview State School Student name: Riley Ashworth Year level: 4 Disability category: Autism spectrum disorder (verified) Adjustment level: Substantial Learning goals: independent transitions between activities Review date: 20/11/2026 Prepared with the guidance officer after parent consultation.— Populated individual education plan with student, plan fields and school-support evidence (85)Personalised learning plan meeting Student: Casey Rourke Parent: Jordan Rourke— Plan meeting note with labelled student fields only (75)Education Adjustment Program profile - OneSchool student record Student: Taylor Brennick EQ ID: 0047731920 Class: 3B Impairment category: Hearing impairment Level of adjustment: Supplementary Support hours: 4 per week with visiting teacher Case manager: Dana Okoro Reasonable adjustment agreed: FM system in all classrooms.— Populated Education Adjustment Program profile with EQ ID, impairment category, adjustment level and OneSchool evidence (85)
Should not match
Special needs of the business— Non-match 1Education reform announcement— Non-match 2Sample template for a learner support record: learner name, year, goals, review date.— Adjacent template language is not a populated special-needs planThe public policy discusses classroom adjustment planning requirements.— Public policy has no special-needs-plan primary or populated student fieldsIndividual business continuity plan for special operational needs.— Sibling planning language does not satisfy the education-plan primaryPolicy guidance: this procedure explains how individual education plan documents are collected, stored and shared, who may access them and how long they are kept. Staff should read the privacy section before completing any form. It contains no details about any individual.— Policy/guidance text naming the topic without any populated record (65 discovery at most)Individual education plan Student name: ____________________ Year level: ____________________ Disability category: ____________________ Learning goals: ____________________ Review date: ____________________ Signature: ____________ Date: __/__/____— Blank form with unpopulated labelled fields (placeholder guard keeps it below 75)Training: this professional learning session shows teachers how a personalised learning plan links reasonable adjustment decisions to the Disability Standards for Education.— News/training prose about the topic without a populated record (65 discovery at most)
Known false positives
- Generic special needs or education references. Mitigation: Require IEP, EAP, or verified disability specific terms.