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SEND reforms pilot already nine months behind schedule

Some changes have gone down like 'cold sick', while others are more popular, consortium member reports

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NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role

SEND leaders are playing a 'crucial role' in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find

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Samantha Booth
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Minister: Labour private schools VAT plan could push up EHCP rates

Labour refused to confirm details of its EHCPs exemption, despite multiple requests for clarification

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SEND reforms a decade on: How it went wrong, and how to fix it

Schools Week speaks to experts and key decision-makers as system faces crisis 10 years after the children and families...

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SEND: Some schools ‘resist’ admitting children with EHCPs – adjudicator

'Small number' of councils tell admissions watchdog of an 'increase in reluctance of schools' to be named in support...

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Revealed: The trusts to run 30 new special free schools

However three other promised schools are yet to have a trust appointed after none was found

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Samantha Booth
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Pushy parents ‘not to blame’ as schools lead surge in bids for EHCPs

Councils told to explain why families' ECHP requests are 'disproportionately' snubbed as applications rocket

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Ministers withhold £18m from five ‘safety valve’ councils

LAs' SEND bailout agreements 'subject to review', as more councils agree deals totalling £230m

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Two-thirds of special schools full or over capacity, new data shows

New data published after Schools Week investigations into bursting special school classrooms

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