Schools must be reimbursed for any national insurance hike, say unions Reports suggested the government could increase national insurance contributions
SEND tribunal costs spiral to £13m Record numbers of parents are appealing council refusals to issue EHCPs
Deadline for results checking service extended after tech issue New data service hit by technical problems in the first year it has been moved back in-house to the DfE
Phillipson urges ‘patience’ on SEND reforms Education secretary adds she is looking at how to help mainstream schools run their own special needs provision
6 key school findings from biggest annual parent survey Worrying findings on school absences, home education and children feeling unsafe at school
SEND: Backlash and legal threats as inclusion push turns sour Schools asked to ‘make the case’ for funding and sign up to inclusion charters as councils try to boost inclusion
DfE scraps £1.6m key stage 1 SATs paper opt-out scheme Unions say ‘common sense has prevailed’ after an estimated £1.6m was spent last year on optional papers
£700m spent on DfE’s hubs, but to what effect? Around 1 in 25 schools nationally have offered support at some point as part of a hub
Revealed: The full scale of Labour’s SEND challenge Just 59% of mainstream school parents report that their child with additional needs is well-supported