My son must make his own SEN decisions? Are you kidding?
If you read our guest post a week ago from Jane McConnell of IPSEA about her “Red Lights” in the draft Code of Practice, you will have noticed a section on …
Category: SEN Legislation
The Children and Families Act 2014 is born
Down at the Department for Education, the collective breath of expectant Ministers and civil servants was being held. Then, a cry sounded as news filtered through.. a joyous birth… It’s …
The 11th hour: Caring for Parent Carers
The Children and Families Bill moves ever closer to Royal Assent with amendments still being put forward. It’s now at the Third Reading stage and there are a few big …
The pathway to get SEN help after Sept 2014
To break into our two parter about “The Story So Far in the SEN Reforms”, the Department for Education yesterday published two reports by SQW, the organisation that is evaluating …
The Saga of SEN Transport
SEN Transport – the very words send a shiver down many a parent’s spine; this aspect of the Jungle can keep parents awake at night. Is my child eligible? How do …
Hey, Earl Howe! We’re carers too!
We’re a little miffed here at SNJ. You might even describe it as pretty ticked off to say the least. For more than a year, the focus for us as …
Legal Aid: Judicial Review only for wealthy parents?
When, as a parent, you hold your child’s final statement, complete with acceptable placement in your trembling hand, you may think it’s okay to heave a huge sigh of relief. …
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Children and Families Bill – you need to take action now [2]
Debs writes We recently wrote about some of the changes being proposed in the Children and Families Bill that will not benefit families. We looked at the duty to identify …
Sayonara, School Action and School Action Plus
Debs writes…. The Government is proposing to replace the current categories of School Action and School Action Plus with a new single early years and school-based SEN category. This will …
A video about the Surrey SEN reform Pathfinder
Tania writes: Here’s a video made by the DfE about when Ed Timpson, the SEN Minister, came to Surrey. It features families and young people trialling the Education, Health and …
Special Needs Jungle meet SEN Minister, Edward Timpson
So the big day arrived and of course, it was raining. Tania and I headed into London, to the Department for Education, to meet the Education Minister in charge of …
Draft SEN Code of Practice: Further views
Debs writes…. As the Indicative Code of Practice was published, I was in Guildford delivering Early Support’s Key Working in Practice capacity building training. I was lucky to have ten amazing …
Government acts on calls for SEN ‘duty’ for health provision in reforms
The surprising and extremely welcome news today from the Department for Education (DfE) is that there will, after all, be a legal duty on health providers to deliver the provision …
SEN reform progress report: ‘pathfinder champions’ chosen
It’s been a bumper day of announcements and happenings surrounding SEN reform. First of all, came the publication of a list of local authority groups who have been appointed “pathfinder …
Children and Families Bill – the missing pieces
Earlier this month, we shared our Initial Views on the Children and Families Bill. Since then, we have had chance to look at the Bill in more detail and wanted …
SEN Reforms – The Minister visits
Last Friday a groups of parents from parent-carer forums around the country came together at the Department for Education to talk about how parental involvement in the pathfinder reforms had …
Children and Families Bill – initial views
Finally, the wait is over and the Children and Families Bill, which includes the SEN reforms, has been published. Debs spent yesterday poring over it and here are her initial …
Children & Families Bill published
The Children and Families bill, issued in draft form last year, has just been published. Within this bill are the reforms to the way special educational needs are provisioned, including …
Key Working : Whose Job Is It Anyway?
When the SEND Green Paper was launched in March 2011, the Department for Education said they would “test the role of key workers”. Several parents approached our parent-carer forum in …
Chinese Whispers and Garth’s Uncle
As you may have read on Friday, Special Needs Jungle has a new regular contributor in Debs Aspland, the director of Kent PEPS and parent of three children, all with …