‘We won’t shy away from difficult reforms’, Phillipson vows amid SEND unrest Education secretary tells leaders she won’t veer from doing ‘what’s difficult and long term in favour of quick and easy’
Pilot of SEND tech device ‘lending libraries’ for schools launched DfE says £1.7m scheme will benefit up to 4,000 schools across up to 32 local authorities
SEND deficits to be kept off council balance sheets for two more years SEND deficit ‘statutory override’ protecting potentially scores of councils from insolvency extended to 2028
‘An accident waiting to happen’: Schools forced to provide medical care for vulnerable pupils Situation so bad one trust may be forced to take legal action against its local health board
1 in 20 pupils now have EHCP after numbers rise again New data shows 11 per cent yearly rise in number of pupils with education, health and care plans amid government reform plans
‘Wholly unsuitable’ EHCPs, long waits for help: SEND inspection failures revealed Ofsted proposes ‘pool of inspectors’ and report cards to improve SEND inspections as shortcomings revealed
‘Burnt out and isolated’: the staff on the SEND crisis frontline SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even sustainable now?
Extra £1bn SEND funding is ‘not reaching children’ Many councils aren’t passing on the funding allocated for high needs at last year’s budget
SEND reforms: the backlash begins ‘If SEND isn’t fixed now – it will become so broken and big, it never gets resolved’, says one source. But parents are already ‘panicked’. Schools Week investigates