Guest article by Dr Jill Pluquailec, Gill O’Connor, and Emma Sadler, Sheffield Hallam University SNJ Intro: When the SEND Review was announced in 2022, we knew better than to trust …
by Amber Windsor, neurodivergent parent-carer and SEND campaigner Recently, right-wing think tank, Policy Exchange, decided to insert itself into the SEND arena with a report it claimed “identifies how poor incentives …
With Nicola Brookes, SENCO, SEND parent It’s probably a fair bet that, if you have a child with SEND, you’ve felt, at least once, like “that parent”. The one that …
with Ben Bastin, Treloars College Earlier this year, Natspec, the association for specialist further education (FE) and training organisations, announced the latest winners of its Innovation Awards. We thought it …
SNJ Intro: Given the large and growing number of children with mental health needs, what’s missing in many schools is nurture. Nurture groups in school can be lifelines for children …
By Guest Authors Tania Robinson and Colleen Brannon SNJ Intro: A while ago, we wrote about the efforts by some local NHS bodies to limit neurodiversity assessment referrals by demanding …
Guest post by Dr Craig Johnston, Senior Lecturer-Criminology, University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol SNJ Intro: We’ve featured alternative provision and its different types quite a few times …
With National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) Supported Internships were one of the really good ideas from the Children and Families Act 2014. Though often unpaid, disabled young people with …
Guest Post By Dr Andy Bilson, Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire We’ve written a number of times about Fabricated or Induced Illness, where parents of children with …
By Dr Neil Alexander-Passe This is the second of two articles on the ‘school to prison’ pipeline by Dr Alexander-Passe. The first introduced the topic and examined young people with …
By Dr Neil Alexander-Passe You may have heard of the school-to-prison pipeline, where often vulnerable teens have left, or been excluded from education, found themselves caught up in gangs and/or …
with Derek Sinclair, senior helpline adviser, Contact PIP Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/721547 You may be aware of the government’s abhorrent plans to remove the health element of Universal Credit for young disabled …
With UK charity, Family Fund, which provides essential grants and services to low-income families with disabled children and young people Families raising children and young people with disabilities or serious …
By Sabrina Simpson, Senior Solicitor, Coram Children’s Legal Centre SNJ intro: Recently, the Department for Education published the most recent data on school exclusions in England. The rate of permanent …
By Thomas Keaney, CEO & Founder of TCES SNJ Intro: Thomas Keaney is an inspirational figure. An eloquent, engaging, expert in his field, and passionate about the futures of young …
with Tina Coope, Education Lead, PANS PANDAS UK SNJ is 17 years old this month, and in that time we’ve seen many developments in children’s health, including new conditions, diagnostic changes …
By Dr Vasilis Strogilos, Associate Professor, University of Southampton SNJ Intro: The “direction of travel” for SEND from the Labour government seems to be expanding the use of resourced provision …
by Dr Anna Hutchinson, clinical psychologist If your child or young person has a mental health difficulty or is neurodivergent (or both), parents know only too well how hard it …
with Cristín O’Brien, Senior Policy Advisor of The Difference A new report has found a “crisis of lost learning” sweeping across schools in England. The Difference Education charity says children …
with Linda Jordan, Senior Development Adviser at National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) There is a lot of confusion over what the Labour government plans to do to solve the …
