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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

Imagine, if you will… It’s a Friday afternoon—we’ve all been there. As the weekend looms, you get a late-breaking message from your friendly neighbourhood SEND services sociopath. It usually contains ...

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, ...

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 ...

Why the Government’s “SEND conversation” fell flat with parents: It’s failing to learn from voices of past experience ...

“Until my mid-40s, I was walking around in a myopic daze, still hanging on to the comforting belief that while flawed, the UK state was essentially reasonable and fair… I would go as far as to say ...