Tag: inclusion bases

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Using “Not Quite Experts” at Hand will be the only solution to staff the Government’s big new plan for school support

Last week, the Department for Education (DfE) provided more details on Experts at Hand, one of the most important parts of its changes to the English SEND system. We ran …

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Inclusion bases: Can they help solve the SEND crisis?

By Matt Walker, National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) We’ve covered the newly-renamed “Inclusion Bases”— previously known as resourced provision or SEN Units—quite a few times. They make up a …

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Inclusion bases: a new label, a big ambition, same unanswered questions

Another day, another announcement. No sooner has the government’s 90% SEND debt write-off lifted the funding Sword of Damocles off councils, than more school plans are announced.     This video by …