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 …
Despite significant SEND reforms introduced in 2014 that were supposed to improve children’s and families’ experience of the system, 10 years on and the SEND system is in crisis. As …
with Hayley Newman, DownsSideUp In February last year, Ofsted published a review into the factors that contribute to a high-quality art education in schools in England. Within it, they argued …
2024 marks a decade of The Children and Families Act. After two years in the making, the CFA 2014 received Royal Assent. Three of the four of us SNJ directors …
with additional reporting from Matt Keer Over the next few months, we’ll be marking 10 years since the Children and Families Act 2014 (CFA) received Royal Assent. We’ll be looking …
Today we bring you some exciting news about changes at Special Needs Jungle— we have appointed two new Directors! 2024 marks the 16th year for SNJ, which began in 2008 …
On Friday, we wrote about the Department for Education announcing a new phase to its short breaks innovation programme and extending supported internships. The announcement also briefly included plans to …
The SEND Improvement Plan was published earlier this year. We’ve covered this many times but today we’re going to look at the risks it faces. We hope the Department for …
I recently came across two linked articles written by academic Alan Hodkinson discussing the history of the SEND system. They immediately drew my attention as the articles attempted to understand …
In 2022, statistics were published by The British Association of Supported Employment (BASE) showing that only 5.1% of people with learning disabilities known to social services are in any form …
‘Critically, we agree with what we heard during the consultation: that the national system should be co-produced with families, children and young people, so we can build their confidence that …
On March 15 2023, Special Needs Jungle held a webinar exploring the Department for Education’s long-awaited SEND Improvement Plan, something it describes as a “Transformation in SEND” Is it though? …
While we’re still working on written analyses of the Department for Education’s now-landed “SEND Improvement Plan”, we wanted to bring you something that you could participate in and ask your …
Government consultations are like buses. No sooner has one gone by, than another arrives. In the same week the SEND Review consultation closed, the Department for Health & Social Care …
with Sharon Smith, SEN Policy Research Forum The pandemic illuminated the yawning gap between schools that put high value on supporting their learners with SEND and those who have little …
