You can’t have failed to notice that, here in the UK, we’re hurtling towards the snap general election called for next month. The political parties have been sallying forth with …
A giveaway today! It’s Deaf Awareness Week and we have a new book for you written to boost deaf awareness and tackle the lack of diversity in children’s book characters. …
We’ve covered Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), which is a condition on the autistic spectrum, a few times on SNJ and it’s always very popular so we know it’s something that …
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide. According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organisation, more than 300 million …
You may remember that we had Tess Philbert on the site not so long ago, talking about person-centred planning. Tess is a parental supporter for SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disability Information …
Last month Barney and I participated in the Whole School SEND Summit, spreading our message in a roundtable at the conference about working with parents. More than 200 parents (many …
Funding is always a hot topic in local authorities and schools and nowhere more so than in special educational needs. From this month, April 2017, the Department for Education is requiring …
Happy Undiagnosed Children’s Day! Did you know that around 6,000 children are born in the UK each year with a syndrome without a name – a genetic condition so rare …
About six months ago, SNJ began looking into something that local authorities have become increasingly keen on – outsourcing the producing of draft Education, Health & Care Plans (EHCPs) to …
A young lawyer specialising in special educational needs, who himself has SpLD, has warned the parties in the upcoming election urgent action is needed to fix the disarray in the current state …
I’ve always found normal to be rather dull. But I have children with autism and a diagnosis myself, so maybe I would say that. But what is normal, anyway? And …
A leading advocate for inclusive education, Richard Reiser, says he is increasingly concerned about the direction of inclusion in the Children and Families Act. For many parents, special schools are …
Last week, I said Autism Awareness had graduated from a day to a week. Dear reader, I was wrong. It’s a month. Look, if Ehlers Danlos syndrome, a rare disease …
My son, Monty, has autism as well as many other, co-morbid conditions. Co-morbidities are conditions which overlap with the ASD diagnosis; for example he has chronic anxiety, ADHD, Tics, Dyslexia …
This is something we haven’t done before – a job advert. It’s not a regular thing, but my sons’ old school More House School in Frensham, Surrey is urgently looking …
We’ve covered the Bercow: Ten Years On review last year, when Barney looked at its recommendations a decade ago and what became of them. Today, we are really pleased to have …
Along with the slew of information released by the DfE last week came a very long, detailed survey of family experience of the Education, Health and Care Plan process in 2015. It …
Having a child with rare disease can mean that you are given very little information about their condition. Parent carers find themselves becoming the expert, rather than the professionals who are …
The most consistently effective way to resolve disagreements about SEND is to appeal to the Tribunal, according to the evidence contained in a complicated research report released by the DfE. …
Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are at risk of being turned away by mainstream schools due to a lack of funding and rising demand, according to The …
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