#ProvisionDenied Return to School SEND Legal Webinar *recording + questions answered*

Our webinar earlier this week in the wake of our #ProvisionDenied report was hugely informative and we'd like to say a massive thank you to our panel of SEND legal experts - public law barristers Steve Broach (39 Essex Chambers) who chaired the webinar, and Alice Irving (Doughty Street Chambers), our own legal columnist, SEN solicitor Hayley Mason (SEN Legal), and legal aid solicitor, Gregg Burrough (Coram Children's Legal Centre). Your time and expertise are so very much appreciated by us and I'm sure, by everyone who attended and who will watch this video and read the slides and answers.

I've collated all the questions that were answered by text during the event and the outstanding questions that weren't answered during the session have been answered now by the panel in their own time - so many thanks for this as well.

If you couldn't attend, or want to catch up with the questions, everything is below.

Video
Slides
PDF of the questions answered in the chat, PLUS answers to questions that the panel have taken time to reply to since the webinar

Webinar video

Slides from Alice Irving

Alice produced some excellent slides to explain the legal position, which she has kindly share with us. They're embedded below. If you can't see them, find them here

#Provisiondenied barrister, Alice Irving's slides from webinar from Special Needs Jungle Ltd

Questions answered in the chat and later

The panel answered many questions in the chat, so we've collated and formatted as many of these as possible. There are also some questions that didn't receive an answer for time reasons that the lawyers have taken the time to answer since.

They are all contained in the PDF linked here and also embedded below. If you would like to donate to help keep SNJ online (we are volunteers, but secure hosting is funded by donations) you can do so here

Answers to written questions during the webinar from Special Needs Jungle Ltd

Tania Tirraoro

Founder, Co-Director at Special Needs Jungle

Founder of Special Needs Jungle. (She/Her) Parent of two young adults with autism. New grandma. Tania, who is autistic, is a leading SEND advisor, working with the Special Education Consortium, Ofsted, and Whole School SEND. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Royal Holloway, University of London Centre of Gene and Cell Therapy and an Editorial Board member of Springer Nature Gene Therapy journal.
Tania is an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. She also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media.
Tania is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.

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Author: Tania Tirraoro

Founder of Special Needs Jungle. (She/Her) Parent of two young adults with autism. New grandma. Tania, who is autistic, is a leading SEND advisor, working with the Special Education Consortium, Ofsted, and Whole School SEND. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Royal Holloway, University of London Centre of Gene and Cell Therapy and an Editorial Board member of Springer Nature Gene Therapy journal. Tania is an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. She also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media. Tania is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.

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