Schools white paper
Long read

Will reforms fix the SEND funding crisis?

Councils may face a rise in requests for EHCPs to secure special school places ahead of the reforms

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Schools white paper

Minister’s rallying cry for expert SEND staff to return

Georgia Gould pledged staff like educational psychologists will be in classrooms under new 'experts at hand' service

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools white paper

Schools in ‘eye of the storm’ of SEND complaints

Schools will have a legal duty to create digital individual support plans for all children with additional needs

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools white paper
Sir Kevan Collins
Exclusive

Kevan Collins to be Phillipson’s SEND delivery adviser

Collins, already a senior DfE figure, will focus on white paper roll-out and reviewing how DfE 'engages with councils'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools white paper

Schools white paper: The key SEND reform policies

DfE documents finally flesh out proposed 'layered' approach

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Inclusion

SEND bailout could ‘reduce incentives to contain costs’

Leaders welcome plan to write off 90% of deficits, but warn there is 'not currently enough money in the...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Opinion

We’ll fail a generation if we say SEND reform is too difficult

Debate is essential, but we must not squander a once-in-a-generation chance to build a truly inclusive education system, writes...

Freddie Whittaker
Tom Rees
Inclusion

DfE expects all secondary schools to have ‘inclusion bases’

Each school would have a 'dedicated safe space away from busy classrooms where pupils can access targeted support', says...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Ruth Lucas
Inclusion

Government to write off 90% of councils’ SEND deficits

Local authorities will get a grant to cover all but 10% of historic deficits accrued by the end of...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth