#SENDReview Chapter 5 (part 1): The missing accountability question
In this article, we’ll be looking at the first part of Chapter 5, dealing with Consultation Questions No. 17 & also the catch-all No. 22 The SEND Green Paper is …
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Publication day: Your first look at what’s in the SEND Review Green Paper.
Updates Summary of the SEND review: right support, right place, right time Dedicated SEND Review website Open consultation SEND review: right support, right place, right time So finally, after more …
Schools White Paper: what are the implications for SEND?
The Government’s Schools White Paper (herein SWP for short) has just been published, the day before the long-awaited SEND Green Paper will finally arrive. It’s been emphasised that the two must …
“Impowering” the future of SEND where parents and SENCOs just need to be less “demanding”
As the SEND Review Green Paper edges closer – maybe within a week – we decided to look into something that lots of parents have been talking about, not least …
Brian Lamb: Will the SEND Review Green Paper deliver lasting improvements for disabled children and families?
SNJ note: Prof. Brian Lamb OBE’s Lamb Inquiry in 2009 sparked the last SEND Reforms Green Paper. We’re delighted he’s here on SNJ to give his thoughts on what’s gone …
Schools need support to implement vital lessons about better SEND teaching, learned from Covid
with Sharon Smith, SEN Policy Research Forum The pandemic illuminated the yawning gap between schools that put high value on supporting their learners with SEND and those who have little …
Lockdown stresses worse in parents and their children with intellectual disabilities. Things haven’t improved since
with Dr Hope Christie, Edinburgh University While much of the country is going about their business as if the pandemic is over, many parents of disabled children feel like their …
Why it’s vital for Deaf children’s futures that British Sign Language becomes law
with Mike Hobday, Director of Policy & Campaigns, National Deaf Children’s Society I learned the British Sign Language (BSL) alphabet as a child in the Brownies. Because of this, I …
Disability, the Equality Act and the SEND Review
Disability campaigner Richard Rieser of World of Inclusion discusses the vital importance for the SEND Review to frame itself around disability in the Equality Act On the face of it, the …
Ombudsman calls for wider powers to investigate SEND and exclusions in all schools
The Local Government Ombudsman has recommended extending its jurisdiction to cover how schools deliver provision to all children with SEND, whether or not they have a statutory support plan. The …
Ask, Listen, Act, so disabled learners’ two years of pandemic misery is never repeated
With Dr Emma Ashworth (she/her) PhD AFHEA CPsychol, Lecturer in Psychology, Disability Coordinator, School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University For the second year running we are approaching Christmas under the …
How will the SEND Review create sustainable support that’s also value for money?
SNJ intro: Do you remember the SEND Futures Feasibility study? It was supposed to work out value for money for SEND but not a lot has come out of it …
It’s not just SEND teacher training that’s needed. How we educate all children is broken
with Susan Lenihan, educator and parent of children with SEND After the recent BBC programme, Don’t Exclude Me, Joanne Lewis, parent of children with ADHD, wrote two articles, here and …
EOTAS: Education Otherwise Than At School. What is it, and can I get it?
with Nicole Lee, solicitor, SEN Legal Today’s article is from my colleague, Nicole Lee, a solicitor at SEN Legal who is an expert on Education Otherwise Than At School as …
Coproduction is an illusion for parents and SENCOs
with Professor Adam Boddison Many parents of children with SEND will have come across the term “Coproduction”. It means having an equal and active role in designing whatever it is …
Shameful: Birmingham’s SEND has failed a generation of disabled children
The Department for Education has issued a Statutory Direction to Birmingham City Council over the rotten state of its SEND services. How shameful, Birmingham! Birmingham is the second area to …
The Let us Learn Too petition is misleading, DfE? Really?
The Department for Education has claimed that the Let Us Learn Too petition SNJ and SCA are involved with and support is “misleading” The campaign has been driven by SCA …
Dear Will Quince, welcome to SEND…here’s 10 of your top priorities
Dear Will Quince Welcome to SEND. You will no doubt be feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment. And if you’re not, then you must be missing something, because you …
Mr Zahawi: Publish the SEND Review—but make sure it solves the RIGHT problem
A government reshuffle: it’s as good as anything else for a temporary distraction. There’s always the hope it might result in a minister who really knows and cares about the …
Dear Boris, you must act now to help disabled children #LetUsLearnToo
On Monday, we ran an article coinciding with the launch of the #LetUsLearnToo video. The campaign is urging the SEND Review not to erode disabled children’s rights as the Department …