Opinion: SEND

Four reasons everyone should try working in AP

Reflecting on nine months leading my trust’s alternative provision, working in the sector is an experience everyone should have

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Keziah Featherstone
Opinion: SEND

Labour must rethink its policy of managed decline for specialist provision

£740 million to increase mainstream capacity for specialist provision risks a boon to hedge funds and a disaster for...

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Warren Carratt
Opinion: SEND

Blaming and shaming won’t help solve the SEND crisis

Stirred by over-simplified punditry, Hugh Greenway sets out the real problems dogging SEND provision – and some ideas for...

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Hugh Greenway
Opinion: SEND

SEND reforms must be based on evidence, not opinion

From funding to policy making, our current models are not fit to deliver an inclusive education system and must...

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Dr Peter Gray
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