Inclusion

Private special schools charging councils £100k fees failed standards checks

Private equity-owned independent special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131,000 a year are among hundreds that...

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Inclusion

Absent and excluded kids ‘should be assessed for SEND’

EPI report sets out 7 policy recommendations to tackle special needs 'postcode lottery'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

More duties? Some councils have no home education staff

Labour’s schools bill will give councils new duties to check family homes are a 'suitable learning environment'

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Inclusion

Revealed: The experts appointed to SEND inclusion panels

The government has appointed a team of experts to evaluate how to make mainstream schools more inclusive

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

‘Umbrella’ SEND label is ‘misleading’, says inclusion tsar

The government’s inclusion tsar believes 'a lot of what we categorise as ‘special’ is normal and predictable'

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

Promise of eye tests in all special schools will create ‘huge unfunded burden’ 

Schools Week joined health minister Stephen Kinnock in Brent to look at the practicalities of the government’s pledge to...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Inclusion

Education committee SEND inquiry to focus on solutions

MPs launch call for evidence in major inquiry to help fix broken special needs system

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Inclusion

Councils kept waiting on key SEND deficit ‘override’ decision

Cash-strapped councils now face waiting until next year for an update on what will happen when the statutory override...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Inclusion

Home education soars by 21% in a year

And the number 'missing' education entirely has risen by 28 per cent

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker