SEND

The latest news, analysis, research and advice relating to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) sector

Thursday

18th Apr 2024

6 ways MATs can tackle SEND challenges
Sendcos feel isolated and face high workloads, warns a new report on SEND provision within multi-academy trusts
Six ways MATs can tackle SEND support challenges

Wednesday

17th Apr 2024

NI ‘early years communication crisis’ highlighted
More children in Northern Ireland waiting for speech and language therapy per head of the population than anywhere else in the UK, ministers told
Tin can phone Northern Ireland

Monday

15th Apr 2024

1 in 10 pupils excluded at primary ‘pass’ GCSE English and maths
Research by children’s charity Chance UK found primary school exclusions to be almost exclusively pupils with SEND
Nine in ten pupils who are excluded in primary school do not achieve a grade 4 in English and maths at GCSE

Monday

8th Apr 2024

Have you got the right mindset for inclusive practice?
Strategies for adaptive teaching aren’t enough, we must make sure we are nurturing helpful dispositions, too, says Margaret Mulholland
Have you got the right mindset for inclusive practice?

Friday

5th Apr 2024

Pastoral capacity in Scottish schools and the case for a national review
The crucial role of pastoral support in schools still does not get the recognition it needs, even after the pandemic made it abundantly clear, says Frank Lennon
Pastoral capacity in Scottish schools and the case for a national review

Thursday

4th Apr 2024

TA support for SEND non-existent, say teachers
The vast majority of teachers need more support inside and outside classrooms for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, an NEU poll shows
SEND pupils need more support says NEU

Monday

1st Apr 2024

Revealed: What teachers want in election year
Pay, wellbeing and other topics likely to dominate the agenda at the NEU’s national conference later this week
Teacher want

Thursday

28th Mar 2024

Weekly round-up: Teacher pay drop and school moves
This week’s essential education news includes teachers being hit particularly hard by a real-terms drop in pay and thousands of students’ ‘unexplained’ school moves
Weekly round-up: Teacher pay drop and school moves
Major investment in buildings and SEND needed, warns PAC
Spending watchdog highlights the state of school buildings as a problem caused by government’s ‘lack of forward thinking’
A public spending watchdog has said school buildings and SEND are major problem areas which need essential spending.

Wednesday

27th Mar 2024

Special schools do an ‘amazing job’, so what can we learn from them?
Emma Seith visits Scotland’s national school for children with complex social, emotional and behavioural needs – and looks at whether any of its highly specialised approaches can be replicated in mainstream schools
Specials schools do an ‘amazing job’ - so what can we learn from them?

Tuesday

26th Mar 2024

Trusts named to run 30 new special free schools
But the DfE says the process of finding a trust sponsor will need to be repeated in three cases after suitable trusts were not identified to run the schools
Trusts have been named to run 30 special free schools which were given approval last year.

Thursday

21st Mar 2024

Four councils agree new deals to cut high-needs deficits
Five councils have also seen their government payments to help balance high-needs deficits put on hold as their agreements have been put under review
The DfE have announced more council areas have entered into Safety Valve deals to bring down SEND spending deficits