Plans to support the country’s most vulnerable children are often being drawn up without any input for health and social care providers, an investigation...
Special schools take in fewer staff directly from teacher training streams and instead “rely” on teachers gaining experience with SEND pupils in mainstream settings,...
Special school leaders fear the government’s plans to ensure all teachers have qualified teacher status (QTS) could limit the curriculum and worsen the recruitment...
More than half of councils have warned they will become insolvent when a measure keeping spiralling SEND deficits off their balance sheets expires next...
Pupils who frequently miss class or are suspended during primary school should be assessed for special educational needs, a new report into SEND support...
The government’s inclusion tsar will say today that use of the “umbrella” SEND label is “misleading and obscures individual identities of children”, adding “a...