Lee Scott is a very nice man. Earlier this year, at the request of the then Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, he criss-crossed England speaking to schools, colleges, families and local …
The final report of The Rochford Review of statutory assessment arrangements for pupils working below the standard of national curriculum tests was published earlier in the week. As I’ve been busy …
Depressingly, I’m hearing just as many, if not more, cases of families being forced to go to the First Tier SEND Tribunal to get the provision their child needs, than …
New figures out from the Ministry of Justice have shown a big jump in the number of appeals registered at the SEND Tribunal. It’s not totally unexpected; earlier this year, writing …
If you were browsing Twitter at the weekend, you may have happened upon a series of most startling and revealing tweets. If you were a bit late, you would most …
As parent carers we often measure our successes in the little victories we achieve on a day to day basis. They may not seem significant to some, but to us …
At the end of last year, there was much excitement in the world of SEND when the second edition of the Disabled Children – a legal handbook was published. For …
So, today we have part two of the answers to the Top 10 questions submitted by you, through SNJ, to the Department of Education. Part one, if you missed it, …
For our first post of 2016, it’s right back into the thick of it. Last year we asked you to submit your Top 10 questions for the DfE about your …
At the end of last week, the government published the detailed statistics from the Special Educational Needs & Disability Tribunal from September 2014-15, i.e the first year of the SEND …
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 …
We have a sizeable following on Special Needs Jungle both on the site and via social media. However that also gives us a big responsibility to tell it like it …
If you have been sitting in isolation with a power cut due to the snow, you are probably one of the few people who hasn’t heard about the Katie Price …
September 1st 2014 – SEND Commencement Day! It’s the date that has appeared in the dreams of those in the SEND division of the Department for Education since 2011. Conversely, …
At Special Needs Jungle, we are parents of children with SEN ourselves, so we know that you will never have the time to get to the end of a long lengthy post …
Three days ahead of the deadline for pre-summer parliamentary approval, the Department for Education yesterday laid before Parliament its final draft of the new Code of Practice along with publishing …
SEN Departments in local authorities in England are currently (or should be) working feverishly on a new “Graduated Response” document aimed at identifying and helping children with special educational needs. …
The upcoming reform in the way SEN support is delivered in schools and colleges in England brings with it much confusion for parents, young people, teachers and other education, health …
It’s somewhat more than fashionably late and let’s hope, as I said the other day, that the reason is because it has been carefully crafted to be so good that …
I have been lucky to meet a number of other SEN bloggers in person, one being Steph Curtis, of the Steph’s Two Girl’s blog. Steph, for those who don’t yet …
