SEND

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

Wednesday

25th Oct 2023

Additional support for learning inquiry launched in Scotland
Teachers and pupils are encouraged to share views on school and local authority ASN services before deadline at the end of December
ASN classroom support

Friday

20th Oct 2023

Helping pupils with developmental language disorder
What can teachers do to support children with DLD to better access the curriculum? Dr Susan Ebbels and Sue Marr share their tips for teachers
How to support children with developmental language disorder

Wednesday

18th Oct 2023

Walker: RAAC cash mustn’t come ‘at expense of SEND’
The government needs to stick to its SEND funding pledge amid demands for cash to tackle the concrete crisis in schools, former minister warns
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Tuesday

17th Oct 2023

SEND crisis ‘will spiral out of control’, MPs warn
Unless more funding is provided then the problems with SEND support will ‘quickly worsen’, cross-party MPs tell the chancellor ahead of his autumn mini-budget
SEND crisis ‘will spiral out of control’ without more cash, MPs warn

Friday

13th Oct 2023

Stop ‘tinkering’ over SEND school policy, DfE told
Senior government figures should make marginalised and vulnerable pupils their policy ‘starting point’, says headteachers’ leader Geoff Barton
Geoff Barton SEND
SEND: 1 in 5 primary teachers have ‘nowhere near’ enough support
Heads call for more high-needs funding and warn that schools cannot afford more teaching assistants to cope
A teacher and young children in the classroom

Thursday

12th Oct 2023

Highest ever attainment gap for 5-year-olds with SEN support
No progress has been made over the last decade in tackling the attainment gap for children who are persistently disadvantaged, warns Education Policy Institute report
Highest ever attainment gap for 5-year-olds with SEN support

Wednesday

11th Oct 2023

SNP to debate delaying school for profoundly disabled children
Parents of children with profound disabilities should be given more control over the ‘daunting prospect’ of them starting Primary 1, the SNP annual conference will hear
Braille reading

Tuesday

10th Oct 2023

Do we really know what inclusion is?
We need public discourse to make sense of what ‘inclusion’ truly means in practice, says Rob Webster
Inclusion

Saturday

7th Oct 2023

SEND support celebrated at Nasen Awards
Schools, teachers, pupils and organisations all honoured at annual awards party in Birmingham
Awards Nasen

Friday

6th Oct 2023

Teaching quality efforts ‘crushed’ by rising poverty
Next prime minister must create taskforce to fix child poverty so schools can focus on educational impact, says former DfE senior adviser Sam Freedman
Teaching quality boost “crushed” by rising pupil poverty

Thursday

5th Oct 2023

MSPs reject plans to improve disabled students’ post-school experience
Teacher workload cited as a key reason for rejecting the proposals – but the Labour MSP spearheading the bill says disabled students have been left ‘high and dry’
Disabled student reject