SEND

Recruiter: Hire us and get EHCP applications done free

Concerns over 'troubling commodification of statutory SEND processes at a time when schools are already overwhelmed'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Revealed: DfE’s orders to councils as SEND reforms quietly begin

Whitehall tells councils not to wait for the white paper or further information on deficits to get started

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Councils snub alternative funding to press on with special schools

Local authorities were offered the choice of continuing with projects or taking cash to boost places elsewhere

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

The long, lonely wait for SEND help

As schools and families await the white paper, Schools Week speaks to three families who have found specialist provision...

Samantha Booth
Chaminda Jayanetti
News

More reception children not ‘school ready’, survey finds

The annual Kindred Squared survey also found regional gaps in school readiness, amid an increase in pupils not toilet...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Schools ‘at the heart of SEND reforms’, says adviser

Dame Christine Lenehan says reforms look at 'changing nature' between schools and local authorities

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Ofqual boss ‘signals anxiety’ to DfE about AI in A-level coursework

Sir Ian Bauckham was questioned by MPs this morning on artificial intelligence risks, his new 'rebuke' powers and on-screen...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Profile

Baroness Barran, shadow education minister

A few days after she was appointed as academies minister in 2021, officials described to Baroness Diana Barran the severity...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

How falling school rolls are not just London’s crisis

Declining childbirth rates are hitting school demographics with many schools facing closure as the issue spreads across England

Samantha Booth
Chaminda Jayanetti