SEND

Diagnostic labels are medicalising young people for behaviours once considered ordinary and are contributing to unsustainable workload in schools, argues psychiatrist Sami Timimi

Chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver and Ofsted chair Dame Christine Gilbert face the education select committee as the finalised plans for new inspections come under scrutiny

Jenny Gilruth also says she is ‘astonished’ that food banks and clothing banks have become ‘normal features’ in Scottish schools

SEND reforms should leave behind the long-established ‘market system’ of competition, the Tes SEND Show hears

DfE adviser acknowledges that the government’s SEND plans are taking longer than was hoped 

The government’s SEND reforms must ensure that special educational needs coordinators get better support, say experts, as exclusive data reveals their ‘unsustainable’ workload

Survey by Youth Sport Trust also finds disadvantaged female pupils less likely than their peers to be confident about physical activity

With the new Ofsted framework taking a broad view of inclusion, it’s even more important to make teaching inclusive ‘by design’ and not by accident, suggests Alex Quigley

Warning that ‘school just isn’t working’ for white working-class children, the education secretary promises policy to address this is in the forthcoming Schools White Paper

Most teachers expect the government’s upcoming changes will have a negative impact on pupils with complex needs, YouGov survey finds

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott warns against ‘pursuing inclusion at the expense of order’ at Conservative conference today

A new approach to inclusion has helped one school to reduce exclusions to zero and significantly cut suspensions. Phil Humphreys and Kiran Gill explain how