SEND

SEND bailout could ‘reduce incentives to contain costs’

Leaders welcome plan to write off 90% of deficits, but warn there is 'not currently enough money in the...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

DfE expects all secondary schools to have ‘inclusion bases’

Each school would have a 'dedicated safe space away from busy classrooms where pupils can access targeted support', says...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Ruth Lucas
SEND

Government to write off 90% of councils’ SEND deficits

Local authorities will get a grant to cover all but 10% of historic deficits accrued by the end of...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Recruiter: Hire us and get EHCP applications done free

Concerns over 'troubling commodification of statutory SEND processes at a time when schools are already overwhelmed'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Revealed: DfE’s orders to councils as SEND reforms quietly begin

Whitehall tells councils not to wait for the white paper or further information on deficits to get started

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Piloted in-school SEND support ‘cut exclusions’ – report

Standardised EHCPs also welcomed by parents and councils, researchers find

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
SEND

Councils snub alternative funding to press on with special schools

Local authorities were offered the choice of continuing with projects or taking cash to boost places elsewhere

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

The long, lonely wait for SEND help

As schools and families await the white paper, Schools Week speaks to three families who have found specialist provision...

Samantha Booth
Chaminda Jayanetti
SEND

Extra SEND cash coming, says DfE, as councils’ woes deepen

Minister says white paper will bring 'additional’ funding as town halls warn high needs freeze will worsen deficits

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas