Features

Jarlath O’Brien, headteacher, Carwarden House community school

Ofsted is not something Jarlath O’Brien talks about to his staff, he tells me, as we sip tea in...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
News

Greening’s first education questions: Green paper ‘will help’ SEN pupils, and four other things we learned

The government’s new(ish) education team faced its first proper grilling in Parliament this afternoon during the first education questions since...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Reforms blamed for ‘record backlog’ in special educational needs tribunals

The government is facing a huge “backlog” in special education tribunals after a sharp rise in appeals, which campaigners...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Special needs funding plan shown to be ‘unreliable’

The government’s proposed new way of funding early education for children with special educational needs will fail to distribute...

Ann McGauran
Ann McGauran
Exam results, News

Exams deregulation good news for SEND pupils

Proposals by Ofqual to deregulate entry-level qualifications have been welcomed as an opportunity for exam boards to be “innovative”...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Opinion

Where are we now with special needs?

Schools in England are half way through the implementation of the biggest special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
News

SEND reforms: Past, Present and Future

The Children and Families Act came into effect in September 2014, with a revised special educational needs and disability...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Opinion

SEND: Thinking the unthinkable

Poor choices for parents and pupils; funding cuts; academisation; dwindling local authority budgets: dark clouds are hanging over SEND...

Barney Angliss
Barney Angliss
News

Special schools are being ‘left out’ by academy system

Special schools are at risk of being “lost” as the government moves towards an all-academy system, a special educational...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden