Prof. Brian Lamb OBE says any new changes must truly embed parental co-production so parents don't have to police the system: themselves ...

A raft of evaluations have been published from testing SEND Change Programme pilots. We’ve found promising prototypes, but ...

More government announcements—this time changing units and resourced provision to “Inclusion Bases”: new label, same unanswered questions ...

Fix SEND our way for 90% of SEND debt write off, Government tells councils, urging swift action on change. So much for co-production ...

It seems that not a day goes by without a new Ofsted Report, inquiry or news article about systemic failings by local authorities to provide special educational provision in a timely manner, if at all ...

SNJ Intro: It’s a confusing and worrying time with all the media stories flying around about what might or might not happen in the (still) upcoming Schools White Paper. We do our best to spell out the ...

It’s been a long old year, but it’s not over yet – least of all when there’s a fresh data drop from the First Tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SENDIST). SENDIST is a legal ...

The SENCO has a critical role to play in ensuring that children with special educational needs and disabilities within a school receive the support they need. Gradually over the years the status and ...

We’ll keep spelling out the facts on SEND While we wait for the Government to publish the much-trailed Schools White Paper that we’re told will spell out ministers’ plans for SEND reform, we’ll ...

Yesterday, the Department for Education (DfE) published its annual statistical summary of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) in England. This year, these figures will be put under a lot more ...

Yesterday, England’s HM Courts and Tribunals Service issued their annual set of statistics about the activities of the Special Educational Needs and Disability First-Tier Tribunal (SENDIST). SENDIST ...

Sharon Paley is based in the UK at the British Institute of Learning Disability (BILD). She is currently undertaking a professional study tour of Australia and has received a Florence Nightingale ...