with Rav Gehlon, Digital Advantage This month, we’re focusing on innovative practice in post-16 provision, featuring three winners of the Nastspec innovation awards. Last week, we looked at a great …
with Ben Bastin, Treloars College Earlier this year, Natspec, the association for specialist further education (FE) and training organisations, announced the latest winners of its Innovation Awards. We thought it …
With National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) Supported Internships were one of the really good ideas from the Children and Families Act 2014. Though often unpaid, disabled young people with …
SNJ team: It feels like the disability and SEND community are under attack at the moment, with Labour plans to cut disability benefit entitlements and worries over their future plans …
SNJ Note: We’ve been hearing of increased attempts by local authorities to cease EHCPs at Post-16 stage. As we are approaching the deadline for post-16 transition EHCPs Nicole Lee, senior …
Supporting young people with disabilities from birth to adulthood was the main goal of the 2014 Children and Families Act. But while the extension of statutory entitlements from age 16 …
As you probably know, SNJ’s directors are all parents of children or young adults with special educational needs and disabilities, so what our parent readers are going through, we are …
with Matthew Wyard, 3PB Any parent who’s navigated the SENDIST Tribunal system will know it can be tricky terrain, especially once your young person has reached the end of statutory …
with Katie Ghose, CEO of Kids Transitions signify change – and it’s one the whole country will experience if the polls are right in less than a month’s time. But …
With Cerebra, IPSEA, SOS!SEN and Contact. We’ve been hearing from many parents about the difficulties they’ve been experiencing trying to secure home-to-school SEND transport for their children with EHCPs, especially …
When a system is going as badly wrong as the SEND system is for 16–25-year-olds, it’s easy to focus on all the failings. In much of our policy work at …
With Graham Caldow, SEND parent and author Graham Caldow is a father of two girls, and the author of a new book about how planning ahead can help your disabled …
With Lynette Barrett, CEO National Star and Chair of Natspec One of the biggest worries for parents is what will happen when their disabled child leaves education. That’s not just …
With Adam Millichip, Tettenhall Wood School, Wolverhampton Podcasts are having a moment right now — even we have one. We talk about SEND of course, but if you wanted to …
A high proportion of 16–19-year-olds on courses at Level 2 and below have a special need or disability (SEND). So you might expect improving programmes for learners with SEND to …
So what’s in chapter 3? From the title, you can assume it’s about provision – specifically SEND provision one would imagine. I’ve broken them down into sections, including specifically for each …
About SNJ’s SEND review coverage: SNJ is bringing you lots of information and analysis about the SEND Green Paper. We are also interested to hear the responses of other organisations …
By Stella Chatzitheochari (University of Warwick) & Sanne Velthuis (University of Warwick & University of Manchester) Official figures reveal that disabled young people lag behind in GCSE attainment. Yet, we …
with Linda Jordan of NDTi We have probably all heard of person-centred planning and that it’s a jolly good idea when organising and commissioning services for disabled people, especially when …
with Ruth Perry, Senior Policy Manager at Natspec We’re approaching the 31st March deadline for updated Education, Health and Care Plans for young people heading towards post-16 SEND provision. Last …
