Inclusion

Lib Dems would halve schools’ SEND funding contribution to £3k

Party would give councils more money to cut what schools have to pay, and set up a 'national body'...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Inclusion

Three more councils slammed over ‘systematic SEND failings’

Oxfordshire, Oldham and Plymouth received the lowest rating in inspections of their SEND services this summer

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

Councils DO have targets to ration EHCPs

Councils have conditions to 'manage demand' for EHCPs

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

The excluded children with nowhere to go

A third of councils still had waiting lists this summer for PRU places

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Inclusion

Kent’s mainstream SEND plans ‘put pupils’ chances at risk’

Council's new target for 80 per cent of pupils with EHCPs in mainstream schools criticised

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

Promoting inclusion won’t mean banning exclusions in London

No, we don't endorse 'zero exclusions' - but we must work together to include more of London's children, say...

JL Dutaut
Lib Peck and Maureen McKenna
Inclusion

Educational psychologists vote to strike

But the Association of Educational Psychologists also said it had received an 'improved pay offer'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Inclusion

MPs demand answers from DfE after EHCP cuts target revealed

The education committee is 'concerned' children's ministers' evidence 'contradicts' Newton Europe contract

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion, Politics

David Johnston appointed children’s minister as Coutinho promoted

He becomes the seventh minister to oversee the important SEND reforms

John Dickens
John Dickens