NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role SEND leaders are playing a ‘crucial role’ in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find
Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded
DfE ends funding for teaching school hubs sector body Officials praise Teaching Schools Hub Council for ‘careful stewardship’ of hubs network as cash pulled
SEND waiting list backlogs at risk of being ‘normalised’ Areas where pupils reach ‘crisis point before their needs are met’ escape government intervention
Minister: Labour private schools VAT plan could push up EHCP rates Labour refused to confirm details of its EHCPs exemption, despite multiple requests for clarification
SEND reforms a decade on: How it went wrong, and how to fix it Schools Week speaks to experts and key decision-makers as system faces crisis 10 years after the children and families act
SEND: Some schools ‘resist’ admitting children with EHCPs – adjudicator ‘Small number’ of councils tell admissions watchdog of an ‘increase in reluctance of schools’ to be named in support plans
Revealed: The trusts to run 30 new special free schools However three other promised schools are yet to have a trust appointed after none was found
Pushy parents ‘not to blame’ as schools lead surge in bids for EHCPs Councils told to explain why families’ ECHP requests are ‘disproportionately’ snubbed as applications rocket