Opinion: SEND

The SEND system needs urgent and substantive reform

The SEND system has been waiting two years for promised reform and it can’t afford to wait any longer,...

JL Dutaut
WHITNEY CRENNA-JENNINGS
Opinion: SEND

Our defences are not ready for this tsunami of SEND referrals

At the Westminster Insight SEND conference, Sonia Blandford says government is ignoring a worrying rise in SEND and CAHMS...

JL Dutaut
Professor Sonia Blandford
Opinion: SEND

What is it like for children with sensory processing issues?

Melissa Jane’s recovery from a brain injury that impaired her sensory processing was hard enough. Then lockdowns set her...

JL Dutaut
MELISSA JANE
Opinion: SEND

School support is vital for families being let down by the SEN system

Getting the right placement is fraught and unduly challenging, and school support is vital to families’ uphill battle, writes...

JL Dutaut
MOLLIE BENJAMIN
Opinion: SEND

Reopening: SENCOs and students with SEND face multiple challenges

Not all students will be able to return to school in the coming weeks. SENCOs will be crucial to...

JL Dutaut
HANNAH MOLONEY
Opinion: SEND

I’ve had to tell 17 SEND pupils they can’t come to school – and I’m furious

Reading a recent report by ASK Research with the NFER about children at special education schools and colleges, I...

Jess Staufenberg
DOMINIC WALL
Opinion: SEND

The SEND funding crisis can’t be hidden any longer

This year, the funding crisis affecting children with SEND and their families finally got the political attention it needs....

JL Dutaut
JULIE MCCULLOCH
Opinion: SEND

The SEND system desperately needs transformation in 2020

The new government needs to make the education of young people with SEND a top priority throughout the next...

JL Dutaut
CHRIS ROSSITER