SNJ’s year in review: What you read most in 2014
Where has the time gone? It doesn’t seem a year ago since we were welcoming 2014 and wondering what the SEN reforms would bring us in 2014. One year later, …
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£31 million extra SEND reform funding- but is money the whole problem?
The new SEND system has now been in place for a whole term and the first children and young people are being transferred from Statements & Learning Difficulty Assessments or …
How goes the development of the Local Offer?
How goes the Local Offer? Do you really, really want to know? At the end of last week three reports came out about the SEN reform Pathfinder project. One was …
A shameless shout out for a very special school
I’ve written about my boys’ special (ist) school, More House, on several occasions before. My sons joined in 2007 and this year, our eldest, Luca, left to join a mainstream …
National survey launched: Are SEND Further Education students getting the choices they deserve?
As you may know, the new Education, Health and Care plan extended the right to statutory protection for a young person’s special educational needs up to, if needed, the age …
Our flow charts included in latest official SEND reform info pack!
A very quick post to tell you about something we’re really pleased about: our SNJ Flow Charts that we produced in collaboration with the Department for Education have been included …
An unintentional Mystery SEND Shopper
It seems that yesterday’s post resonated with many, but what most missed was the little reference to my “not mentioning” a non-statutory “Pathways Plan” our LA had invented. I first …
Some ideas for teachers get started with parental co-production
A month in and the new SEN system is still an unknown quantity for many schools. SENCos are still getting to grips with what will replace the IEP and are …
Accountability and SEND reform- a guest post from the Dept for Education
Last week we had our very first Twitter chat and our guest was Stephen Kingdom, Deputy Director of SEND at the Department for Education. It was really successful and if …
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 …
Transferring to an EHC Plan: Why “managing family expectations” is the opposite of co-production
I’m anticipating the next school year with a good deal of trepidation, thanks to the new SEND system. Some day in the next couple of years, the vast majority of …
SEND Commencement Day is finally here. A new era in Special Educational Needs starts today!
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, …
Finding out about SENDirect: Delivering choice and control to families
As a result of the SEN reforms, the landscape around special needs has suddenly got a whole lot more complicated. Local Offers, Independent Supporters, Mediation providers, the SEND Gateway and another …
Back to school with your special needs child: Some top tips for a smooth ride
The Summer is almost over and as parents we are either reluctantly or desperately looking to the start of the new term, depending on how the last few weeks have …
Day 4: The Flow Chart for if you disagree with SEN provision (or lack of it)
I think, somehow, that this might prove to be an oft visited post. While the government’s aims are for high quality SENCos to interpret the new SEND Code of Practice …
The new SEND system Flow Chart 3: Conducting an Education, Health & Care Assessment
And so, day three… You’ve applied for an assessment for your child’s special educational needs and lo! you get the go ahead from the local authority. What happens next? The …
The new SEND system Flow Chart 2: Requesting an Education, Health & Care Assessment
So, after yesterday’s post showing the headlines for the Assess, Plan, Do, Review Graduated Approach, we now turn to what happens if you’ve been there, tried that and the interventions …
SEN Minister Ed Timpson talks to Special Needs Jungle (video)
We are approaching the SEN reform legislative finish line with Parliamentary approval of the new SEND Code of Practice so close I can feel its breath on the back of …
SEN reform: All about the Independent Supporter
You may have heard that in the new SEN system, parents can ask for support through an Education, Health and Care Assessment by an Independent Supporter. Families can ask for …
The school that builds hope, self-esteem and futures
The marquee had an extension for Founder’s Day this year. Our first end of summer term Prize Day came in July 2008, (I wrote about one of our early ones here, …