The Department for Education has been put on notice: parents have had enough of government and local authorities speaking with forked tongues. They’ve had it with assurances that disabled children’s …
Accountability is not a word that parents often used to associate with the world of special educational needs and disability. So when the government announced three years ago that independent …
Now that we’ve saved goodbye to the summer holidays, I was interested to know which UK attractions parents of disabled children had found to be disability-friendly. I asked on our …
The 24th of September is National Multi-Sensory Storytelling Day and I’d like to tell you about an exciting event to mark the day – and hopefully inspire you to hold …
With contributions from Angel Kelly, SNJ Mental Health Editor It’s not just tough physically being a parent of a disabled child. The toll on mental health can be extreme. It’s …
This post is sponsored by JKP Publishers* I have a lot of neurodivergence in my life and I can’t pin all of it on my husband. It comes in various …
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has branded England’s SEND, ‘a system in crisis’. From over 600 responses to an online survey, about their experiences in relation to the …
A brief update today. Despite it being the middle of summer, the Department for Education is still pumping out information that you, perhaps being on hols, might have overlooked. The first …
I am a sensory engagement specialist. I spend a lot of my time looking at how our early sensory experiences shape and support our development. I have worked in special …
Thousands of children with disabilities will now be properly protected from discrimination in schools after a landmark ruling found the government’s equality laws are unlawful. Just over a month ago, …
Last Friday, the High Court handed down a judgment with far-reaching implications for families of children & young people with SEND. Here’s what the case was about, what it …
In a class of 30+ children, a teacher’s prime objective is to make sure that everyone is working to the best of their ability. Their attention is inevitably drawn to …
For the first four years of the reformed SEND system in England, families had available to them a free Independent Supporter who would assist them through the process of transferring …
It’s the end of July so it must be time for the annual SEND figures – the government statistics that show how many children and young people have some kind …
Ah, the school summer holidays, don’t you just love them? No more rushing around to get to school, no more school uniforms to wash or homework meltdowns to tear your …
Pupils with SEND are up to six times more likely to be permanently excluded from school according to new government figures. The annual exclusions data show that overall exclusions – …
As if we’re not already drowning in enough bad news about how disabled children and their families are bearing the brunt of council and school funding cuts, today there’s fresh …
Money. A chorus of voices are speaking up, telling us there’s not enough of it. Parents, teachers, unions, local authorities, all with different perspectives, but all telling us that we …
The first hearings into the SEND inquiry were held before the Education Select Committee this week. Three esteemed witnesses were gently probed for their views on how the 2014 SEND …
Parents of an autistic teenager are going to the Upper Tribunal today to appeal a decision that they say discriminates against children with autism. Thirteen-year-old ‘L’, from Derbyshire, was excluded …
