SEND FAQs

We have a lot of answered questions on the site about aspects of SEND that you may find useful. Some have been answered by IPSEA, the legal charity that is dedicated to helping parents through the complicated SEND legal system.

—Please note, our “Ask IPSEA” feature is temporarily suspended to new questions, due to capacity. If you would like to volunteer to help us get it going again, do contact us —

 About Ask IPSEA

In this great link-up between Special Needs Jungle and the brilliant legal charity, IPSEA, we have answered some of  YOUR SEND legal queries. This service is free of charge and is intended to build up a bank of legally-compliant reader-submitted questions that will be useful to many people whether parents or practitioners.

IPSEA will answer questions every month that are sent in via the form below. Please keep your question concise and only include the relevant information. If you need help fast or if  your query is too personal or complicated to be answered publicly online, you should also contact IPSEA directly. All answers published will be anonymised to protect your privacy

About IPSEA

IPSEA provide free, independent, legally based advice and support to parents who have children with Special Educational Needs and/ or a disability as they navigate the education system. The IPSEA website is a comprehensive source of information on the law with over 300 downloadable support sheets.

They also provide an e-mail information service, telephone advice lines and individual casework for parents. Working through over 250 trained volunteers, IPSEA are the largest single supporter of parents taking cases to the SEND Tribunal. IPSEA also provide comprehensive training in SEN law, Exclusion law and the Equality Act to parents and educational professionals including LAs and schools.