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Nine things we learned from Ofsted’s latest education recovery research

The watchdog found schools struggling with staff shortages, unclear Covid measures and identifying learning gaps

SEND review: New course to give SENCOs seat at top table

DfE says existing qualification has ‘variability’ and might not provide ‘knowledge and skills’ needed

SEND review: Ministers take control to end ‘postcode lottery’

Green paper outlines vision of a ‘single national SEND and alternative provision system’

SEND review: ‘Inclusive’ schools key to system shake-up

Green paper sets out ambition to improve a system it says is failing vulnerable children and their parents

SEND review won’t repeat ‘mistakes of the past’ – Zahawi

Education secretary says system is failing and reform is ‘long overdue’

SEND review: The proposed reforms to alternative provision

Changes to the way AP is funded and used by schools have been put forward by the government

SEND review: What schools need to know

The much-delayed review of the SEND and AP systems was first launched in 2019

Nine more councils told to reform SEND services in return for £300m

But cash comes with strict conditions such as keeping more children in mainstream schools

Oliver Caviglioli, education author and illustrator

Education’s best-known illustrator, Oliver Caviglioli, is a one-time Olympics trainee, bodybuilder, sandal-wearing PE teacher and son of a Corsican communist. He talks to Jess Staufenberg about quitting headship for his pens Oliver Caviglioli is one of the only people I instantly recognise on Twitter from a logo-like drawing of themselves, rather than their actual photo. […]