Opinion: SEND

Unreformed, England’s SEN system is financially unsustainable

A new report from the National Audit Office lays bare the financial crisis related to SEND provision and makes...

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Emma Willson
Opinion: SEND

Cutting minimum funding to plug high needs deficits is wrong

Top-slicing school budgets to fill councils' high needs black hole is already a go-to. Government must rethink backing the...

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Caroline Derbyshire
Opinion: SEND

The SEND system is not broken. It’s doing its job 

The history of our SEND system shows our priority should not be to fix it but to create a...

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Professor Sally Tomlinson
Opinion: SEND

This parliament is our best hope of SEND reform in a generation

The government is determined to fix our ‘lose, lose, lose’ SEND system – and this parliament has the knowledge...

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David Baines
Opinion: SEND

How ‘twinning’ could help us out of the SEND crisis

With no financial cavalry on the horizon, some schools are leading the charge in making mainstream settings more inclusive

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Roy Blatchford CBE
Opinion: SEND

What we’re missing in our national conversation on SEND

Sarah Johnson reflects on a BBC Woman's Hour special on the SEND system - and what she didn't hear...

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Sarah Johnson
Opinion: SEND

Your survey responses will help re-shape the school system

Here's why I've used my powers for the first time to compel schools to respond to questions about their...

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Dame Rachel de Souza
Opinion: SEND

Solving the SEND crisis can’t be done in isolation

The education sector’s many crises are interlinked. None will be solved if we don’t all work together towards coherence

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Dr Joanna Stanbridge and Dr James Wood
Opinion: SEND

A plan to start fixing the SEND system right now

Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives have published a plan to get SEND provision on...

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Anne Longfield CBE