SEND

SEND spend spotlight: the data keeping Labour up at night

Ahead of an important report on SEND due next week, Schools Week looks at four of the most pressing...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Schools must be reimbursed for any national insurance hike, say unions

Reports suggested the government could increase national insurance contributions

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Jack Dyson
News

SEND tribunal costs spiral to £13m

Record numbers of parents are appealing council refusals to issue EHCPs

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

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...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Phillipson urges ‘patience’ on SEND reforms

Education secretary adds she is looking at how to help mainstream schools run their own special needs provision

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

6 key school findings from biggest annual parent survey

Worrying findings on school absences, home education and children feeling unsafe at school

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

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...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SATs

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

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Politics

£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

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth