The DfE replies: Accountability in SEND
This is our final instalment of the answers supplied by the Department for Education to your questions. We grouped your questions into related themes and over the past week we’ve …
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Is there meaningful accountability for illegal exclusions?
Over the years Special Needs Jungle has frequently highlighted the unacceptable practice of illegally excluding children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) from school. You can see just how …
SEND Inspections: Are they bringing accountability? Your views needed
As you know, we’ve been following the development of the SEND inspections developed jointly by Ofsted and CQC. Barney has even written a helpful guide for parents to help you …
SEND accountability: What you told the Ofsted consultation
Late last week, Ofsted released its report on responses from parents, carers and practitioners – anyone with an interest – to the formal consultation on the proposed SEND Inspection Framework. …
Accountability: the number one change you would like
In January, we ran a giveaway for a copy of Disabled children, A Legal Handbook. Congratulations to Lisa Thomas who won the copy. When people entered the giveaway, we also …
Consultation on SEND Accountability launched. We look at the big picture
So finally, what we have been waiting for – the public consultation for setting up a system of accountability for the new(ish) Special Educational Needs and Disability system. Of course …
SEND accountability – we look at the framework and ask for your views
In what is probably the last act of his current position as Minister for SEND in this parliament, Ed Timpson has announced a much-awaited accountability framework for the new SEND …
Accountability and the SEN reforms: SNJ asks the Minister, Ed Timpson (Part 1)
As regular readers will know, Renata and I went along to the Department of Education recently to interview the Minister responsible for Special Educational Needs, Ed Timpson. This week we’re …
Accountability and SEND reform- a guest post from the Dept for Education
Last week we had our very first Twitter chat and our guest was Stephen Kingdom, Deputy Director of SEND at the Department for Education. It was really successful and if …
The SEND Jungle 2018: The year parents roared
It’s been an incredible year in the SEND world, but not because the system has started to work better, or because families are routinely at the centre of decision-making. It’s …
Nine out of 10 parents fear for their deaf child’s education amid the SEND crisis
Let’s walk in a parallel world for a bit. A world where there’s never been a better time to be a deaf child than right now. In this world, deafness …
Help SEND parents legally challenge the government over national funding crisis
The Department for Education has been put on notice: parents have had enough of government and local authorities speaking with forked tongues. They’ve had it with assurances that disabled children’s …
SEND Inspections: Moving ahead but illegality must be called out
Accountability is not a word that parents often used to associate with the world of special educational needs and disability. So when the government announced three years ago that independent …
Legal victory for Bristol parents against SEND cuts – what does it mean for other areas?
Last Friday, the High Court handed down a judgment with far-reaching implications for families of children & young people with SEND. Here’s what the case was about, what it …
SEND Inquiry: The Baroness, Brian, the man in the middle and much more..
The first hearings into the SEND inquiry were held before the Education Select Committee this week. Three esteemed witnesses were gently probed for their views on how the 2014 SEND …
Taking a stand against the dog’s breakfast EHCPs of Oldham (part 1)
I’ve seen a fair few EHC Plans now – those of the pupils at Bright Futures School (BFS), those of children whose parents are seeking a place for them at BFS, …
Shocking rise in autistic pupils being excluded from England’s schools
We’ve seen for some time the rise in children with special educational needs and disabilities, particularly autism, who end up being excluded – often illegally – from school because there …
Ofsted/CQC inspections MUST become a permanent part of SEND. Here’s why.
We’re almost two years on from the biggest change to SEND accountability in a generation – the introduction of local area SEND service inspections, led by Ofsted and the Care …
Happy 10th birthday SNJ! SEND then and now…
Happy birthday to us! 10 years ago today, I started writing down some information about how I had successfully got a statement of special educational needs for my younger son, …
Getting the national picture: Tell us your local SEND funding cuts stories
by Tania Tirraoro and Matt Keer Tania: There is a national SEND funding crisis – we know this, but it seems the Department for Education (or at least some parts of …
