AP

Internal AP risks becoming ‘costly holding pens’, report warns  

Lack of guidance and oversight of in-school AP highlighted in new report that aims to codify good practice

John Dickens
Ella Jessel
Inclusion

Call for ‘enforceable’ school inclusion framework and audits

Schools should follow 'enforceable' national inclusivity standards to 'shape a system that works for everyone', major FED report says

John Dickens
Ella Jessel
News

Investigate ‘shocking’ special school free meal take-up, DfE told

Study finds quarter of eligible pupils in special schools not taking up free school meal

John Dickens
Ella Jessel
Spending review

What the spending review really means for schools

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets, writes Luke Sibieta, and forecasting anything...

John Dickens
Luke Sibieta
Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal

John Dickens
Nansi Ellis and Haili Hughes
SEND solutions

We must reclaim our role as SEND and AP’s fixers. ASAP

New project aims to gather and broadcast the solutions to the SEND funding crisis that are lighting the way...

John Dickens
Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge
SEND

SEND reforms: the backlash begins

‘If SEND isn’t fixed now - it will become so broken and big, it never gets resolved’, says one...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Three years in the making, but Labour savages SEND improvement plan

Conservative government’s SEND improvement plan 'did not go far enough'

John Dickens
John Dickens
SEND

How to solve SEND? 13 sector solutions…

The education committee received an 'unprecedented' number of responses to its SEND inquiry. Here's what we learned from it...

John Dickens
John Dickens