with Eduardo Reyes, SEND parent, journalist, and #SaveSENDLegalRights London Protest MC As a person who’s much happier writing words down than saying them out loud, I was delighted that I …
SEND has been in the spotlight in Parliament once again this week. The Education Select Committee spent Tuesday morning having a look at the Government’s proposed SEND reforms in order …
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has today published a report warning that home-to-school transport for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is (well-worn …
Well, that didn’t take long. It’s less than a week since the Government published long-awaited proposals for “reforming” the SEND system, and the first steps have already been taken in …
What’s going on at the Department for Education? How can this be happening again? Even though we are all supposed to be in the middle of (checks notes) “the biggest …
“Until my mid-40s, I was walking around in a myopic daze, still hanging on to the comforting belief that while flawed, the UK state was essentially reasonable and fair… I …
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 …
“The path ahead requires honesty about these challenges while maintaining hope for solutions. This research provides that honesty. It shows us a profession that cares deeply about vulnerable pupils but …
Disabled children who need social care support face a confusing, outdated and unfair set of laws, which make it difficult, if not impossible, to access the care and support that …
Catriona Moore summarises everything you need to know about the Schools Minister’s “uninformative” and “unreassuring” appearance at the Education Select Committee this week
Rumours abound that the Government is about to publish a white paper on SEND reform that will change the way that children and young people with SEND are supported. In …
SNJ note: Catriona wrote in March about the devastating passing of her beloved daughter, Amy, who had Rett syndrome, at age 17. Today she has written about the aftermath of …
By Catriona Moore, Policy Manager, IPSEA and Imogen Steele, Policy and Public Affairs Officer, Contact One of the questions the House of Commons Education Select Committee is asking as part …
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will have its second reading in Parliament tomorrow (8/1/25), with “delivering change” and “breaking down barriers to opportunity” the slogans on which the Bill …
The Law Commission has spent the last 12 months carrying out a much-needed and long-awaited review of the laws underpinning social care for disabled children in England. The aim is …
“Difficult people are usually having a difficult time.” This observation set the scene at a recent conference organised by the School of Law at the University of Leeds and the …
Not long now until til the general election and each of the main political parties has now committed itself to a manifesto explaining what they would do in government. Politicians …
Anything that calls itself the “safety valve intervention programme” is going to struggle to excite public interest. Perhaps that was the intention: create a bureaucratic-sounding programme in an obscure corner …
“It’s hard to understand why there’s so much unwillingness to accept that unlawfulness is the biggest problem in the SEND system. What needs to be reformed isn’t the law, but …
with Connor Johnston and Efa Jones, Law Commission Today we have a post about the Law Commission Review of Children’s legislation, by two of the people involved in it. Time …
