SEND

Charity produces alternative White Paper seeking national availability of resourced provision and access to speech and language therapists for all schools

We must ensure that a focus on reading help is not lost amid SEND debates and reform proposals, argues Mike Fischer

Dame Rachel de Souza calls for changes to the way referrals are overseen amid concerns that vulnerable pupils are more likely to face abuse at school

Ministers urged to keep EHCPs, create national standards, increase funding and ensure that mainstream staff have the training to meet a diverse range of needs

In both England and the US, SEND provision suffers from poor funding, a lack of trained professionals and system overwhelm. But their responses to these challenges have been very different, with the US questioning inclusion while England pushes for more of it, finds Holly Korbey

Education minister Georgia Gould tells packed debate that SEND reforms will be guided by the need for early intervention

Report calls on government to ensure better staffing, funding and oversight to make the SEND system work for pupils

Taskforce chair says it will be wrong to consider schools to be strong on inclusion if they are happy for local students ‘to be sent in a taxi elsewhere’

IFS warns that any reforms that would reduce pupils’ rights to cut costs could risk a repeat of the backlash over welfare changes

A trust leader reflects on what they learned from a trip to Germany about how other nations approach special education needs and disabilities provision

Analysis of more than 1,200 pupil premium strategy statements identifies main challenges facing schools

An assistant principal at an alternative-provision setting explains how staff get pupils – and parents – onside and engaged in education again