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
SEND

Feature: The case for a SEND evidence ‘custodian’

Calls grow for a national institute for SEND excellence - so how could it work?

John Dickens
John Dickens
SEND

EHCPs: Schools pick up pieces of absent health and social care

Plans to support SEND pupils being drawn up without any input from health and social care, investigation finds

John Dickens
John Dickens
SEND

Wrong names and rule-breaking: Poor quality EHCPs shortchange schools

Education, health and care plans include 'copy and paste' elements - and some even have the wrong child's name...

John Dickens
John Dickens
SEND

Fidget spinners and learning styles: EHCPs’ questionable interventions

Schools Week investigation delves into what England's £11bn high needs budget is spent on ...

John Dickens
John Dickens