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NEW POST: Journalist Eduardo Reyes, MC'd the London #SaveSENDLegalRights protest and speaks about fronting the highly emotional event

Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, EH...

SNJis hosting a WEBINAR with SEND Minister Georgia Gould, on the White Paper SEND reform proposals. Wednesday May 13th 7-8pm. REGISTER NOW!

Matt Keer looks at the DfE's Experts At Hand SEND plan: big funding, unclear delivery, weak accountability and a serious specialists shortage

A guest post today from the NFER about their research into the benefits and risks of Inclusion bases: Can they help solve the SEND crisis?

Where will all the teaching assistants come from? Tania gathers together research exposing the reality gap in the government SEND plans

WEBINAR RECORDING: SNJ's Legal Round Table on the SEND Proposals in the Schools White Paper, with four expert SEND solicitors.

Frances Akinde discusses the SENCO as gatekeeper and how the White Paper proposals bring responsibility for opening doors, not closing them…

Eleanor Wright asks if SEND lawyers are REALLY opposing the Government’s proposals just to protect their “vested interests” as claimed?

Matt Keer writes about what SEND accountability will look like if the proposals go through: a system that marks its own homework

A legal challenge is launched claiming the Schools White Paper SEND proposals are “irrational, unfair” and “significantly weaken rights

The SEND reforms in the Schools White Paper reveal rights given, and rights stripped away— here is our initial overview

Some baffling independent school funding news plus the DfE needs a plumber, good policymakers, no panic, and someone who understands SEND

We’ve had a few SEND funding announcements recently. SNJ’s Matt explains the cash splash: What it means and if it’ll improve provision…

ALLFIE's Coalition for Inclusive Education has written to the Schools Minister, Georgia Gould MP, expressing concerns about systemic and structural barriers that push Disabled children and young…

More government announcements—this time changing units and resourced provision to “Inclusion Bases”: new label, same unanswered questions

This Government seems intent on shredding the rights of the vulnerable

The painfully long story of the government's SEND reforms has pushed exactly those buttons, among people already used to a level of anxiety that may soon get even worse

National Education Union announces support for the #SaveOurChildren’sRights campaign to protect SEND legal rights

Complex needs, simple cuts: how vague, undefinable labels and lazy terminology could be a roadmap to rationing who gets SEND support.

Why the Government’s “SEND conversation” fell flat with parents: It’s failing to learn from voices of past experience

With the government encouraging mainstream schools to open specialist bases for pupils with SEND, headteachers have warned that doing so can risk becoming a 'magnet school' and therefore coming under increased pressure

"Performative, chaotic and desperate” The Department for Education’s national SEND “conversation” is anything but a two-way discourse.

Watchdog report shows widespread clashes between councils and academy trusts as Labour plans admission reforms

Helen Hayes says commitment would help rebuild trust among parents in England worried about children’s future

The 'parents of disabled children' club was one I didn't want to join, and yet was shattered to leave with the death of my daughter in February. Re-engaging with these issues at this time, I find extremely difficult.

Letter: Jane Asher, Carrie Grant, Chris Packham, Anna Bird, Fazilet Hadi, Sally Phillips, Jon Sparkes and 100 others call on the government not to remove the right to an EHCP from children attending m...

Stephen Morgan, the early education minister, would not confirm every child who has an EHCP would continue to keep the same provisions Here is the letter to the Guardian, signed by dozens of special needs and disability charities and campaigners, that is covered in our splash story about opposition to proposals to restrict access to education, health and care plans (EHCPs). (See 9.34am.) Here is John Harris’s column on the topic. Continue reading...

Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris