Not long ago a drive emerged against "fun" lessons. The push was to rid the focus on fun and return it to subject knowledge itself. Soon followed the argument that students had to accept boring lesson...

The number of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has soared in recent years. But is there enough provision to meet their needs? Tes analyses the latest data

DfE’s inclusion group chair Tom Rees will lead programme calling for examples of schools running resource provision and SEN units, and using specialist learning assistants

An inclusive education hub, to bring together examples of what successful inclusion looks like in practice.

Part 1: context It feels like something has changed.  After more than ten years of talking about the same things, often with the same people, and trying to get the conversations about SEND and incl…

Delivering that vision will mean having a shared understanding of what we mean when we talk about standards

We all love a good speech, don’t we? A room full of nodding heads, a leader passionately declaring their commitment to inclusion and how e...

Solving the SEND Crisis

Our 2024 Person of the Year has changed the rules, reversed the language and given women permission to reject shame

With an increased focus on adaptive teaching, it’s time to radically reconsider where our lessons are aimed, argues Margaret Mulholland

National efforts to make schools more inclusive risk ignoring the huge amount of expertise in the specialist sector, say headteachers

National efforts to make schools more inclusive risk ignoring the huge amount of expertise in the specialist sector, say headteachers

YouTube video by Mind the Gap with Jon & Emma

Without easy access to other support services, families increasingly turn to schools for help. In this panel discussion, researchers, practitioners and policymakers will debate the role schools alread...

Join BAMEed Network SEND in exploring how special education needs in racially diverse communities is regarded in education.

Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Tuesday December 3rd) publishing a new report, ‘Too Skint for School’, examining the link between poverty and school...

The 7th annual Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature, funded by the Arts Council England, shows that 17% of chi...

One of the parts of curriculum design that often doesn’t get enough airtime is empty space. If a curriculum design is 100% full, and designed to fill every possible lesson, minute or moment then th…