NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role SEND leaders are playing a ‘crucial role’ in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find
Council launches AP review after girl left without education for months Ombudsman found Essex Council ‘disregarded’ its responsibilities for girl waiting for support
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
Ministers withhold £18m from five ‘safety valve’ councils LAs’ SEND bailout agreements ‘subject to review’, as more councils agree deals totalling £230m
Revealed: Councils slice £67m from school budgets to prop up SEND deficits Four-fold increase in the school funding councils have shifted to fill high needs budget blackholes