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

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

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.

Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, ...

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 ...

Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, ...

Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, ...

Last week, the Department for Education’s strange “National SEND Conversation” came to a close. If you needed an accessible version of the 36-question-long survey, it was slid out days before closure, ...

Since taking office, the Labour government has been clear about its ambitions: more children with SEND should be educated in their local mainstream schools. Bridget Phillipson has repeated the message ...

Greater diversification, customisation and choice is needed The government’s announcement in December of a £3bn investment to create 50,000 new places for children with SEND in mainstream schools is ...