Revealed: The uneven split of £1.6 billion inclusion fund Heads warn it’ll do little more than balance the books in mainstream schools
Earning the right to deprivation funding How might ministers better target deprivation funding based on family income?
Soaring cost of private provision revealed as ministers plan curbs The findings of a Schools Week investigation come as the government gears up to rein in spending on private special schools
Upheld SEND complaints rise 25% in a year ‘These statistics expose the extent to which local authorities continue to fail children and young people with SEND’
‘There is nothing left to cut’: The schools counting the cost of inclusion Schools Week investigates how the current system punishes inclusive schools financially, with leaders facing making cutbacks to maintain current levels of support
Will reforms fix the SEND funding crisis? Councils may face a rise in requests for EHCPs to secure special school places ahead of the reforms
Behaviour expert plays down hubs’ restorative practice trend ‘The behaviour hubs actively encouraged schools to adopt greater levels of consistency, rigour and predictability’
Attendance and behaviour hubs: 29 more lead schools revealed Schools Week obtains list of additional lead schools, with several more due to be announced later this week
Abu Dhabi-owned SEND school firm profits soar to £45m Witherslack said more pupils in its independent special schools had helped deliver a 30 per cent profit boost