We look at understanding Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia syndrome and how schools can help children with the condition ...
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, ...
SNJ Mental Health Editor, Angela Kelly looks depper into why children can be traumatised by just going to school ...
In this episode of SNJ in Conversation, we're talking Teaching Assistants, their role & how schools can use them effectively ...
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 ...
Disabled children who need social care support face a confusing, outdated and unfair set of laws, which make it difficult, if not impossible, to access the care and support that could improve their ...
Recently, right-wing think tank, Policy Exchange, decided to insert itself into the SEND arena with a report it claimed “identifies how poor incentives have driven overdiagnosis of mental ill health ...
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 ...
Matt (he/him) has two deaf children. He has over 20 years of experience grappling with the SEND system as a parent, and he’s seen the best and the worst that the SEND system offers. Matt specialises ...
It seems like an ice age since the last time we this rather than just a year – but yesterday, the Department for Education published their annual statistical summary of Education, Health and Care ...
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 ...
A new report shows teachers fear education policy reforms will make things worse, not better, for children with SEND.