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
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
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’
Schools white paper: The key SEND reform policies DfE documents finally flesh out proposed ‘layered’ approach
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 system’
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 Tom Rees
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 government
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 2025-26
Guessing why more children may have complex needs isn’t complex The system that we currently have – formulated in around 2014 is completely unworkable