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
SATs

Capita loses £180m SATs contract to exam board Pearson

Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher training

DfE ends funding for teaching school hubs sector body

Officials praise Teaching Schools Hub Council for 'careful stewardship' of hubs network as cash pulled

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Lucas Cumiskey
News

SEND waiting list backlogs at risk of being ‘normalised’

Areas where pupils reach 'crisis point before their needs are met' escape government intervention

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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