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SEND tribunal costs spiral to £13m

Record numbers of parents are appealing council refusals to issue EHCPs

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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...

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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

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Schools

6 key school findings from biggest annual parent survey

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

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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...

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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

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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

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SEND

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

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SEND

Shadow minister: ‘We should hang our heads in shame’ over SEND

Gagan Mohindra apologises at the Conservative Party conference, saying his party 'didn't do enough' on SEND

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Samantha Booth