Will the SEND and AP Improvement Plan improve the lives of 16-25 year olds with SEND?
So, at last we have a SEND and AP Improvement Plan. The big question now is: was it worth the wait? If you’re a 16 to 25-year-old with special educational …
Category: Higher Education
Why the SEND Review MUST extend EHCPs to disabled students in higher education
We’ve been calling for Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) to cover all young disabled people in education up to the age of 25 since before the 2014 reforms. So …
Does the government really want to support disabled young people to go to university?
** The rules referred to in this post have changed yet again. Read our new post here to find out how. However, the information below about our own battle to …
Using Minecraft to engage children with science learning
Minecraft is beloved of thousands of teens and pre-teens across the country, but it seems to have a particular fascination for young people who have Asperger’s and similar conditions. The …
Disabled Students Allowance cuts: Is it time to extend the EHCP to universities?
What do you call it when someone says one thing but their actions show they really mean something quite different? There’s a few words and none of them are very …
Disabled Students Allowance gets a year’s reprieve: Is it practical or political?
Hark! I hear screeching tyres swivelling in a U-turn.. or is it just the sound of a General Election approaching? Surely that can’t be the reason for the most recent …
Dreaming Spires Await – but with no Disabled Students’ Allowance
I’ve been writing, nay, banging on, for some time about the way Higher Education students have been left out of the SEN reforms and the new Education Health and Care …