Call me weird, but I was quite looking forward to this hearing of the Commons Public Accounts Committee this week. The National Audit Office report was so damning, I was relishing the opportunity to ...

SEND is an existential threat to LAs’ financial sustainability; junking the SEND Tribunal is part of the answer, claims new report ...

Last week, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued a damning report on the state of SEND in England. On the same day, the Department for Education also issued a report on what consultants had learned ...

It’s an old saying about bureaucracies: bad news doesn’t make it to the top until it’s too late. That applies doubly to SEND, particularly when that bad news comes from parents. Let’s take the case of ...

SEND is an existential threat to LAs’ financial sustainability; junking the SEND Tribunal is part of the answer, claims new report ...

Today, we’re looking at a surprisingly frank report from Surrey about their SEND that’s relevant wherever you live, but first, if you saw the budget yesterday, you’ll be aware that Chancellor, Rachel ...

Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson yesterday announced in a speech that “Now is the time for bold reform,” for SEND. More reform, while the current “reforms” are not yet implemented. Yes, more ...

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the recent National Audit Office report into the “value for money” of the SEND system has exacerbated negative attitudes towards disabled children and their parents ...

If your child struggles with school anxiety and you don’t know where to turn, you may be interested in a free workshop being offered for parent carer readers of SNJ on Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT ...

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Another day, another report detailing failings in the system that’s supposed to support children and young people with SEND. Today it’s the National Audit Office laying out the problems and having a ...

As parents of children labelled as having Special Educational Needs, we are encouraged to work in co-production with our child or young person's education setting, and to be involved in planning the ...