Chris Packham, Carrie Grant, Sally Phillips, Kellie Bright and many high-profile SEND names and organisations have urged the Prime Minister to scrap plans to weaken children’s legal rights. In a …
We did it! Again! Yesterday evening, the Save SEND Legal Rights petition started by Tee-Jay, a fantastic autistic campaigner who is just 15 years old, galloped past the post of …
You may be feeling like the Department for Education has beaten you into submission this year with confusing consultation after consultation, claiming to be “listening” while analysing your responses with …
On Saturday 9th May 2026, parent carers, their children and young people with SEND, teachers, campaigners, professionals and allies gathered in 12 towns and cities across England with one clear …
If, like us, you are set against the proposals in the SEND part of the Schools White Paper that aim to limit your child’s rights, then you MUST take action …
After such a long wait for the Schools White paper and its SEND “reforms”, when they arrived yesterday (23/2) it felt like we’d been watching the ocean slowly receding before …
with Kate Cox, Senior Solicitor, IPSEA Updated May 2026 Despite what many local authorities and schools are telling parents, the law on SEND has not changed. Proposals are just that: …
Intro by SNJ: Last week, the Department for Education’s strange “National SEND Conversation” came to a close. If you needed an accessible version of the 36-question-long survey, it was slid …
Yesterday (12/1/26), many of the Save Our Children’s Rights team, including Tania, Renata, Gill, and Rachel from SNJ, descended on Downing Street to hand in the 133k-signature-strong petition that changed …
What’s going on at the Department for Education? How can this be happening again? Even though we are all supposed to be in the middle of (checks notes) “the biggest …
This is SNJ’s penultimate post for the year. Next week we’ll have one that’s really important, but I didn’t want to keep you waiting any longer for this one, to …
If there’s anything that can put a damper on Christmas, it’s the Government’s irony-free announcement of “the biggest national conversation about SEND in a generation”. Only it’s a “conversation” where …
In our final look at the SEND Inquiry report, we’re taking a longer look at what it says about funding—one of the central and thorniest causes of the SEND crisis. …
Over three hours yesterday, MPs spoke, many powerfully, and from personal experience, about the state of SEND at the SEND Petition Debate in Westminster Hall. This was the debate that …
Next Monday, 15th September, will be a landmark Day of Action for SEND families. Thanks to the more than 122,000 people who signed our parliamentary petition, MPs will debate SEND …
by Amber Windsor, neurodivergent parent-carer and SEND campaigner Recently, right-wing think tank, Policy Exchange, decided to insert itself into the SEND arena with a report it claimed “identifies how poor incentives …
with help from Renata Watts, and all the Save Our Children’s Rights team Last week, Rachel wrote about a seemingly strategic campaign by local authorities to trash-talk EHCPs so the …
I loathe the concept of “strategic incompetence.” It describes the tactic of performing a task so poorly, you’re never asked to do it again. It’s often used in the context …
And John Harris, journalist, author, parent of autistic young person The basic legal rights of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (or SEND) are under threat. Today, SNJ is …
