By Sam Carlisle, SEND Parent, journalist SNJ Note: The Education Select Committee held its second oral hearing this week in its SEND Inquiry. Significantly more MPs were in attendance than …
Last week, Ofsted announced its proposals to overhaul how it carries out some of its education inspections. So what changes are Ofsted proposing, and how might it affect the world …
Supporting young people with disabilities from birth to adulthood was the main goal of the 2014 Children and Families Act. But while the extension of statutory entitlements from age 16 …
Last week, England’s Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) issued a triennial review report. Every three years, LGSCO surveys its complaints caseload and makes recommendations to central and local …
Call me weird, but I was quite looking forward to this hearing of the Commons Public Accounts Committee this week. The National Audit Office report was so damning, I was …
It’s an old saying about bureaucracies: bad news doesn’t make it to the top until it’s too late. That applies doubly to SEND, particularly when that bad news comes from …
by Rachel Filmer, Matt Keer and Tania Tirraoro Today, we’re looking at a surprisingly frank report from Surrey about their SEND that’s relevant wherever you live, but first, if you …
by Catriona Moore and Matt Keer Another day, another report detailing failings in the system that’s supposed to support children and young people with SEND. Today it’s the National Audit …
Last week, the government and Ofsted announced that they planned to change how English schools, colleges and local authorities will be inspected. What changes are coming, and how will these …
By Tania Tirraoro and Sharon Smith Relax everyone, ISOS Partnership, the research darlings of local government, have fixed SEND for us all with a new offering, and what a behemoth …
Hard on the heels of the 2024 EHCP figures, analysed by Matt here, it’s time for the 2024 SEND statistics as a whole. That means all children who were reported …
Yesterday, the Department for Education (DfE) published its annual statistical summary of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) in England. This year, these figures will be put under a lot …
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have been inspecting local area SEND services since 2016. At the start of 2023, they introduced a new framework that changed the way …
by a former council SEND Team Manager Last week, parent Rachel Filmer wrote on SNJ how the disgraceful comments from the Warwickshire councillors about children with SEND were not unique. …
With Margaret Doyle, mediation expert and research fellow If you want to appeal against a decision concerning an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), you need to either participate in …
This is the third in our series of posts looking at the complex and toxic tyre fire that is SEND funding. Some is wasted fighting parents and SEND consultants It’s …
This is the second in a series of ‘what’s happening?’ posts on SEND funding. In the first post, we looked at the Department for Education’s claim it’s made record increases …
For many of us, school funding is a complex mystery with huge figures bandied around that aren’t easy to understand. Competing claims between local and national government make it even …
The SEND system is not in a happy place in 2024. Central and local government have plans to fix it. But most of these plans involve altering, manipulating or suppressing …
It’s been a long old year, but it’s not over yet – least of all when there’s a fresh data drop from the First Tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs …
