On a national level, the criteria of the Federal Invalidity Insurance (Invalidenversicherung, IV) set standards for special needs education. They mainly cover aspects of input (such as access to special schools, financing, qualification of the teachers) and processes. In addition each canton has it’s own system of evaluating and controlling SNE. Individual educational planning is a common practice. However there is generally no curriculum that is applied in SNE.

The revision of the financing system (see sections on the Legal System and Financing) will change the situation most probably by the year 2007. There will be no more national financing and therefore no national standards can be linked to the financial support. A new system of quality assurance with corresponding indicators has to be developed on the national level in order to substitute the functions of the Federal Invalidity Insurance and assure equity in SNE across cantons.