SEND

‘An accident waiting to happen’: Schools forced to provide medical care for vulnerable pupils

Situation so bad one trust may be forced to take legal action against its local health board

Freddie Whittaker
Chaminda Jayanetti
SEND

1 in 20 pupils now have EHCP after numbers rise again

New data shows 11 per cent yearly rise in number of pupils with education, health and care plans amid...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

‘Wholly unsuitable’ EHCPs, long waits for help: SEND inspection failures revealed

Ofsted proposes ‘pool of inspectors’ and report cards to improve SEND inspections as shortcomings revealed

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

‘Burnt out and isolated’: the staff on the SEND crisis frontline

SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

DfE extends neurodiversity support scheme, but with less funding

Programme that trains teachers to better identify needs extended into 2025-26 with £9.5m

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

Extra £1bn SEND funding is ‘not reaching children’

Many councils aren't passing on the funding allocated for high needs at last year's budget

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

SEND reforms: the backlash begins

‘If SEND isn’t fixed now - it will become so broken and big, it never gets resolved’, says one...

John Dickens
John Dickens
SEND

Schools could face SEND tribunal penalties 

Direction forcing schools and councils to follow rules on evidence bundles follows deluge of 'irrelevant' information

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Surrey council’s block on education communications angers MPs

Authority 'will no longer provide a response to individual cases where a more appropriate alternative route is available'

Freddie Whittaker
Chaminda Jayanetti