SEND

A road map to sustainable funding for SEND provision

Solving the SEND funding crisis is not just a matter of more money but, crucially, more stability and flexibility...

JL Dutaut
Samuel Skerritt
SEND

NFER: MATs should create ‘director of SEND’ role

SEND leaders are playing a 'crucial role' in fostering collaboration and assisting individual schools, researchers find

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

No more SENDCos. The role needs a new title and status

‘Coordinator’ simply doesn’t reflect the demands, responsibilities and importance of the role in today’s school system

JL Dutaut
Mike Ion
SEND

Ensuring quality and sustainability in SEND Provision

Additional funding for SEND places is very welcome – but we must ensure it is deployed as part of...

JL Dutaut
Michael McCarthy and Robert Bell
SEND

Minister: Labour private schools VAT plan could push up EHCP rates

Labour refused to confirm details of its EHCPs exemption, despite multiple requests for clarification

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

SEND reforms a decade on: How it went wrong, and how to fix it

Schools Week speaks to experts and key decision-makers as system faces crisis 10 years after the children and families...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

SEND: Some schools ‘resist’ admitting children with EHCPs – adjudicator

'Small number' of councils tell admissions watchdog of an 'increase in reluctance of schools' to be named in support...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Revealed: The trusts to run 30 new special free schools

However three other promised schools are yet to have a trust appointed after none was found

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
SEND

Pushy parents ‘not to blame’ as schools lead surge in bids for EHCPs

Councils told to explain why families' ECHP requests are 'disproportionately' snubbed as applications rocket

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth