SEND

Speaking to Tes as ASCL’s annual conference begins, general secretary Pepe Di’Iasio issues a warning about Ofsted’s inspection changes and calls on the government to ‘show the money’ for its pledge to recruit 6,500 teachers

Schools are not serving their communities if they off-roll or never take on disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils, warns Ofsted chief inspector

Watchdog says Mark Vickers will help to ensure that proposed changes to school inspection work well for pupils with SEND

Leaders have to work ‘against the tide’ of the accountability system to promote a whole-school approach to inclusion, MPs also warned

Giving schools more opportunities to act early when supporting children’s needs could deliver huge improvements, says Pepe Di’Iasio

In our ‘My Week As’ series, a senior sector leader reveals what a typical week looks like in their role. Here, we talk to children’s services director Pinaki Ghoshal

Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs have been found to fare the worst in terms of getting SEND support. Why is this, and what can schools do with constrained resources?

Labour wants more pupils with SEND in England to be educated in mainstream schools – so what can the country learn from Scotland, where this approach has been in place for decades?

Findings come after special schools were shown to be suffering more ‘severe’ teacher shortages than other parts of the sector

From simple changes to school decor to self-regulation training, inclusive practices can have a huge impact without breaking the bank

The SNP’s mission to close the disadvantage-related attainment gap has become a ‘defining failure’, Scottish Labour leader tells first minister

There’s an ‘urgent need for improvement’, says the watchdog – as it questions whether schools can cope with the almost eight-fold increase in additional support needs pupils