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 …
With Eliza Gardner, teenage mental health campaigner Children’s Mental Health Week gives rise to grimmer statistics every year and of course, the pandemic has had a significant hand in that. …
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 …
Throughout the pandemic, we have been monitoring what has been happening with special schools and colleges and the pupils who attend them. Our previous research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, …
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have published a joint report after a series of interim “listening and learning” visits to schools during autumn 2020 and Spring 2021. (Note: This …
What would your concerns be if a teacher commented that a pupil was unprepared, failed to assess past actions, and was, “surprisingly resistant to learning lessons from failures”? Would you …
with Charlotte Peck of Enham Trust and Move Europe During the pandemic, thousands of disabled children and young people who rely on therapies such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy and hydrotherapy …
It looks like many more children with SEND have been able to go back to school this month, latest government figures show 15% of children with Education, Health and Care …
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 …
We’ve just launched our new report (PDF link) with Nuffield (Amy Skipp, Vicky Hopwood & Rob Webster With Jenna Julius & Dawson McLean, NFER February 2021), on special education during …
with Robbie Coleman, Secretariat Director, National Tutoring Programme. You are almost certain to have heard of the National Tutoring Programme, set up to help pupils catch up after the lock coronavirus …
with Hayley Mason, SNJ SEND legal columnist So here we are again, the whole country in full lockdown and back to those “heady days” of home education (although many never …
with Caroline Wright, Policy Adviser at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists In the first lockdown, thousands of children overnight lost the external therapy input such as speech …
The education fo children with SEND (or lack of it) during the pandemic has been on our minds all year. How can we make schools and LAs accountable for ensuring …
Welcome to Coronavirus Lockdown 2.0. I don’t know about you, but 2020 has seemed like a nightmare you can’t quite wake up from. Just when you think you have, you’re …
with Jim Paterson, The Family Fund Earlier in the year, the government announced it was giving an additional £10 million to the Family Fund during the pandemic, to families who …
Amy Skipp is a researcher, founder of ASK Research, and the creator of the EHCP Journeys website. She’s writing today about the research she’s leading on for the Nuffield Foundation. …
During most of June 2020, Special Needs Jungle offered a survey of to our readers, to ask them about some of the aspects of support their children with special educational …
While people are emerging out of lockdown, and some children are returning to school, other families remain carefully shielding. While same families have enjoyed the chance to spend more time …
with Ian Thorsteinsson, Principal, Gretton School, Cambridge The Government has confirmed it is pressing ahead with its plans to reopen schools for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 cohorts from …
