The Unacceptable Truth: 20 SEND legal rights at risk from the Government’s SEND reforms

You may be feeling like the Department for Education has beaten you into submission this year with confusing consultation after consultation, claiming to be “listening” while analysing your responses with …

DfE backtracks over consulting on planned SEND legal changes. Parents MUST respond to the consultation to say Not in Our Name!

The Department for Education doesn’t seem to know whether it’s coming or going. Yesterday it was forced to issue a “clarification” over its consultation; specifically, the bit where it said …

Where will all the teaching assistants come from? The research exposing the reality gap in the government SEND plans

Today, we’re looking at a number of different research reports—most of them the Government’s own—that point to a growing mismatch between its mainstream inclusion ambitions and schools’ ability to recruit …