Inclusion

Coutinho: ‘Important to take time and get SEND reforms right’

Children's minister was responding to criticism of SEND action plan that 'pushes tough decisions until after election'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

Sluggish SEND review risks leaving kids ‘stuck in vicious cycle’, says de Souza

'We have two more years of children being fed into this cycle with commensurate poor outcomes that has necessitated...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

SEND review improvement plan: Everything schools need to know

Government finally sets out its next steps for review launched over three years ago

Freddie Whittaker
Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Inclusion

SEND review: Three-year trial before national roll-out of flagship reforms

It means the major proposals to fix broken system might not be rolled out until 2026

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

Parents wait up to a year to challenge SEND support

'In the most extreme cases you could have kids sitting at home, self-harming for a year with no provision'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

Kent wants school ‘volunteers’ to clear its SEND backlog

Council promotes 'exciting' and 'behind the scenes' opportunity

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Inclusion

School leaders rebel over raid on reserves amid ‘shameful’ bail-out ultimatum

A council set for a multi-million pound government bailout to bring its soaring SEND deficit under control will claw back...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Inclusion

No, Mr McArdle. The SEND system is not a game we play

A recent Schools Week interview with DfE SEND expert, Tony McArdle gives a rare insight into the minds of...

JL Dutaut
Tania Tirraoro and Matt Keer
Inclusion

‘People like me were absent when things were going wrong’

Tony McArdle is the man who holds the purse strings to stop councils going bankrupt – but only if...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill