There’s been a fair bit of debate in the media in the last few months about the rising costs of transporting children and young people with SEND to their place of education. Much of this debate has ...

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SNJ Mental Health Editor, Angela Kelly looks depper into why children can be traumatised by just going to school ...

Disabled children who need social care support face a confusing, outdated and unfair set of laws, which make it difficult, if not impossible, to access the care and support that could improve their ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It is time to deliver a more dignified experience for children and young people with SEND and to restore families’ confidence in the system.” That’s a quote from the Executive Summary, published ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SENCO has a critical role to play in ensuring that children with special educational needs and disabilities within a school receive the support they need. Gradually over the years the status and ...

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 ...

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 ...