SEND

Ex-DfE civil servant takes up role at SEND contract firm

Consultancy held contract for 'delivering better value' SEND programme which aimed to cut new EHCPs

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
SEND

Restrict EHCPs to pupils with most severe needs, says children’s commissioner

Report calls for education, health and care plans to be split into three tiers of support

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

Members of taskforce on ‘broken’ SEND system named

Former education secretary, children's commissioner and trust leaders among members

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
SEND

Abu Dhabi-owned SEND school firm profits soar to £45m

Witherslack said more pupils in its independent special schools had helped deliver a 30 per cent profit boost

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
SEND

‘We won’t shy away from difficult reforms’, Phillipson vows amid SEND unrest

Education secretary tells leaders she won't veer from doing 'what's difficult and long term in favour of quick and...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
SEND

Pilot of SEND tech device ‘lending libraries’ for schools launched

DfE says £1.7m scheme will benefit up to 4,000 schools across up to 32 local authorities

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

SEND deficits to be kept off council balance sheets for two more years

SEND deficit 'statutory override' protecting potentially scores of councils from insolvency extended to 2028

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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