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 ...

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

The national media stories about EHCPs being cut has got us all worried. We asked IPSEA to set current SEND law out clearly.

NEW POST: Chris Coghlan MP writes about testimony evidencing LAs’ “lawbreaking, gaslighting and lying” that's wrecking SEND children’s lives.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relax everyone, ISOS Partnership, the research darlings of local government, have fixed SEND for us all with a new offering, and what a behemoth of unwanted change it is. Junk the SEND Tribunal, cut ...

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 ...

In October 2024, the National Audit Office reported that the 2014 SEND reforms were not working. In December the same year, as £740 million was made available to remove barriers and build more ...

“It is time to deliver a more dignified experience for children and young people with SEND and to restore families’ confidence in the system.” That’s a quote from the Executive Summary, published ...