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Education, health and care plans: England 2022
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EHCPs
Special needs
SEND
May 12, 2022
EHCP demand hits 'record high' in pandemic
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EHCPs
Special needs
SEND
May 12, 2022
Surge in number of children with EHCPs
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EHCPs
Special needs
SEND
May 12, 2022
Supporting pupils with SEND during testing times
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SEND
Special needs
Assessments
May 9, 2022
Rona Tutt’s SEND summary – April 2022
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SEND
Special needs
Apr 28, 2022
‘The job means a lot’: the scheme helping Send school leavers find work
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SEND
Special needs
Employability
Mar 28, 2022
Profile: Derwen College, specialist educational needs college, West Midlands
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Colleges
Special needs
SEN
Mar 8, 2022
Financial pressures on deprived schools affecting children’s education, MPs warn
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School funding
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SEND
Mar 7, 2022
Special educational needs families are falling through the cracks
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SEND
Pupil support
Mar 1, 2022
Why teacher training needs to embrace the complexities of SEND
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Teacher training
SEND
Special needs
Feb 28, 2022
Children with special educational needs adversely affected by lockdown
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Special needs
Covid impact
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Lockdown
Online learning
Jan 29, 2022
Ombudsman calls for greater powers to investigate SEND complaints
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Special needs
Complaints
Dec 6, 2021
Finding elements and joyful lives aka people don’t pay attention to boring things
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Engagement
Motivation
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Special needs
Nov 30, 2021
Engaging and motivating staff for maths and English skills development
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Engagement
Motivation
English
Maths
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Special needs
Nov 30, 2021
New digital functional skills qual: warning sounded on SEND exclusion
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Digital functional skills
SEND
Special needs
Nov 6, 2021
Budget to include £2.6bn for special educational needs and disabilities
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Spending review
Special needs
SEND
Oct 24, 2021
Ofsted: Put SEND pupils 'at centre' of Covid recovery
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Ofsted
SEND
Special needs
Education recovery
Jul 9, 2021
Outrage as teacher Linda McCall is spared jail for abusing special needs pupils
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Scotland
Special needs
Learning difficulties
Abuse
Jul 9, 2021
Funding pressures putting children with SEND at risk of missing out on nursery school places
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Special needs
SEND
Nursery places
Early years funding
Jul 6, 2021
Skills bill: calls for inclusion of SEND provision
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SEND
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill
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Jul 2, 2021
Transition to and within further education, a learners and parent’s perspective
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Transition
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Special needs
Jun 23, 2021
Summer-born children disproportionately labelled as having special educational needs
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Summer-born
SEND
Special needs
School readiness
School starting age
May 31, 2021
City College Norwich share employers’ views on employing a learner with SEND
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SEND
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May 20, 2021
SEND: Ofsted report tackles co-production, SENCOs, and EHCP delays
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Special needs
Pupil support
May 19, 2021
Councils in England facing funding gaps plan to cut special needs support
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Local councils
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SEND funding
SEND
May 15, 2021
ASCL responds to Ofsted report on SEND support in mainstream schools
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SEND
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Pupil support
May 13, 2021
SEND inclusion scheme helps 25,000 children access sport
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SEND
Special needs
Inclusion
Sports
May 13, 2021
DfE to target £20m SEND capital funding at councils with ‘safety valve’ bailout deals
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SEND
Special needs
School places
Apr 9, 2021
Report: Identifying pupils with special educational needs and disabilities
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SEND
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Mar 19, 2021
Special needs pupils in England living in dread of returning to the classroom
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Special needs
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School reopening
Mar 7, 2021
ITT SEND resources pack
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ITT
SEND
Teacher training
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Feb 22, 2021
Exams 2021: 300,000 students could face ‘unfair’ grading, warn disability groups
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Feb 19, 2021
Anxiety has increased for individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
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Disability
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Feb 12, 2021
Coronavirus in Ireland: Disability groups call for urgent progress on teaching for special needs pupils
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Ireland
Special needs
SEND
Pupil support
Jan 11, 2021
Vague coronavirus lockdown rules keep children with special needs at home
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Special needs
Coronavirus
Lockdown
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Jan 6, 2021
Funding gap of £643m puts special needs teaching at risk
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Special needs
LGA
HNB
Dec 5, 2020
Vulnerable children to suffer 'lasting harm' from pandemic, warns schools' watchdog
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Ofsted
Special needs
SEND
Safeguarding
Vulnerable
Dec 1, 2020
Warning over 1 in 4 special school pupils 'sat at home'
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Coronavirus
SEND
Special needs
School attendance
Pupil support
Nov 30, 2020
Exhausted parents of disabled children feel ‘abandoned’ as Covid shuts services
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Disabled
COVID-19
Special needs
Nov 14, 2020
Covid SEND change had 'potentially severe' pupil impact
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Coronavirus
SEND
Special needs
School closures
Lockdown
Oct 9, 2020
Special needs children ‘shut out’ of school in England due to Covid-19 rules
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COVID-19
Coronavirus
Oct 4, 2020
Special educational needs charity offers free membership to support early years settings
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Special needs
Early years
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Sep 23, 2020
The Guardian view on special educational needs: councils need more money
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SEND
Special needs
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Sep 8, 2020
Making relationships and sex education work for children with SEND
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RSE
Relationships education
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Sep 7, 2020
Special schools in England urgently seek coronavirus advice
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Aug 31, 2020
Five evidence-based strategies to support high-quality teaching for pupils with SEND
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
Aug 28, 2020
DfE criticised for SEND 'tick box' response
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
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Jul 31, 2020
Ombudsman in talks with DfE over investigating schools
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Jul 27, 2020
Committee to press government on SEND commitments
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
Jul 23, 2020
Assistive technology – how can we make it more accessible?
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Assistive technology
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Pupil support
Jul 23, 2020
DfE planning ‘large-scale’ value-for-money review of pupils’ EHC plans
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SEND
EHCPs
Value for money
Jul 23, 2020
Rona Tutt's SEND summary July 2020
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SEND
Special needs
Jul 14, 2020
What face masks in public mean for autistic pupils
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Face masks
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Autism
SEND
Social distancing
Jul 14, 2020
An evaluation of the framework for inspecting local areas’ special educational needs and/or disabilities services
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Ofsted inspections
SEND
Special needs
Jul 9, 2020
Council oversight left boy with SEND out of education for months, ombudsman finds
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SEND
Special needs
School attendance
Jul 2, 2020
New admission rules proposed to crackdown on schools refusing ‘challenging’ pupils
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School admissions
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Jun 26, 2020
Supporting children and young people with SEND as schools and colleges prepare for wider opening
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School reopening
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Pupil support
Jun 18, 2020
Coronavirus: Parents of disabled children feel abandoned
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Coronavirus
Disabled
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Pupil support
Jun 16, 2020
Dame Vera Lynn's children's fund faces financial hardship
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Cerebral palsy
Jun 8, 2020
Reopening FE: ‘We must not forget autistic learners'
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Coronavirus
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Jun 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Parents of disabled children 'cut off and ignored'
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Special needs
May 27, 2020
Supporting children and young people with SEND as schools and colleges prepare for wider opening
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Coronavirus
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Special needs
May 26, 2020
Children's minister pledges £37m SEND boost
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SEND
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Special needs
Coronavirus
May 19, 2020
Coronavirus: £10m emergency home-learning fund set up for families with SEND pupils
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Special needs
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Coronavirus
SEND
May 19, 2020
Changes to the law on ECHPs will have serious impact
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Special needs
SEND
EHCPs
May 7, 2020
DfE reports 10% rise in number of EHC plans
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May 7, 2020
MPs scathing in their assessment of DfE's grip on SEND system pressures
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May 6, 2020
One million children missing out on SEND support, MPs warn
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
May 6, 2020
Public accounts committee on support for SEND pupils
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SEND review
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Pupil support
May 6, 2020
System for children with special needs in England 'riddled with inequalities'
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May 6, 2020
DfE 'lacks sufficient grip' on SEND provision
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May 6, 2020
DfE’s SEND review must address ‘significant failings’, says Public Accounts Committee
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SEND review
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May 6, 2020
DfE lacks 'sufficient grip' on SEND provision
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SEND
Special needs
May 5, 2020
SEND children and families need more help
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Coronavirus
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Special needs
Apr 30, 2020
Rona Tutt's SEND summary April 2020
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SEND
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Apr 23, 2020
Amanda Barclay's special needs school closes due to pandemic
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SEN
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Apr 21, 2020
Eden Project founder’s school runs out of cash
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Apr 16, 2020
Coronavirus: Special needs parents in 'survival mode'
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Coronavirus
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SEND
School closures
Apr 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Minister defends law relaxing SEND duties
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Coronavirus
SEND
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Mar 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Children’s minister claims relaxing SEND support rules ‘strikes right balance’
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Coronavirus
School closures
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Special needs
Mar 24, 2020
Concerns over how SEND children will be supported during Coronavirus pandemic
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Coronavirus
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Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus: Heads want specific guidance to protect highly vulnerable children
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SEND
Vulnerable
Mar 16, 2020
Coronavirus: Special schools in Belfast to close from Monday
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Northern Ireland
Coronavirus
Special schools
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SEND
Mar 15, 2020
SEND crisis 'could bankrupt entire council'
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SEND
Funding
Special needs
Mar 10, 2020
Education robots offer leg-up to disadvantaged students
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Special needs
Autism
Robots
AI
Artificial intelligence
Mar 10, 2020
DfE 'concerned' about schools rejecting SEND pupils
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School admissions
SEND
Special needs
Mar 9, 2020
Don't stop applying for EHCPs, urges DfE chief
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EHCPs
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SEND
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Mar 9, 2020
Top DfE boss: SEND failures driven by ‘stresses and strains’ on the system
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Special needs
SEND
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School funding
Mar 9, 2020
3:30 p.m. - Public Accounts Committee will examine disparities for pupils with SEND
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PAC
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Mar 9, 2020
Committee to examine disparities for pupils with SEND
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SEND
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Pupil support
Mar 6, 2020
SEND funding: heads' angry letter to the chancellor
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School funding
SEND
Special needs
Mar 5, 2020
Heads and councils press for extra £5.5bn for 'struggling' schools
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School funding
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Mar 4, 2020
Schools wasting SEND money, says DfE adviser
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School funding
SEND
Special needs
Mar 4, 2020
Statements of SEN and EHC Plans: England 2019
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SEN
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Special needs
Mar 3, 2020
Underfunding SEND is an act of aggression and neglect
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SEND
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Funding
Mar 3, 2020
Sign our letter to the PM and support our campaign for better SEND funding
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SEND
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Funding
Mar 2, 2020
Major regional disparity in SEND funding revealed
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SEND
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Funding
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Mar 2, 2020
1 in 4 parents with SEND children unhappy with school support, Ofsted reveals
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SEND
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Ofsted
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Feb 28, 2020
SEND campaigers to hand the Prime Minister an invoice for £12m
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SEND
Funding
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Feb 27, 2020
Budget cuts linked to drop in attainment for children getting additional support
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Scotland
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Feb 26, 2020
Children with SEND 'worst affected' by school funding pressures
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SEND
Special needs
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Feb 24, 2020
Call for new independent SEND inspections of schools
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SEND
Inspections
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Feb 19, 2020
MPs to consider plans for SEND and mental health watchdog
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SEND
Mental health
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Regulation
Feb 17, 2020
Does a 1:1 teaching assistant remove independence?
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Teaching assistants
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Special needs
Feb 14, 2020
Ysgol y Deri school making everyone feel 'really happy'
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Wales
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Pupil support
Feb 13, 2020
Funding shortfalls and ineffective implementation are derailing reforms to SEND support
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SEND
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Pupil support
Feb 10, 2020
Who will save our SEND system from a cataclysm?
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Feb 10, 2020
Plight of SEND families shames me, admits Halfon
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Robert Halfon
SEND
Special needs
Jan 31, 2020
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (January 2020)
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SEND
Special needs
Jan 30, 2020
SEND funding is trapped in a vicious downward spiral, we need a national strategy
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Jan 29, 2020
Parents 'in the dark' about school accessibility plans for disabled children
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Disabled
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Jan 29, 2020
Early years survey seeks views on SEND funding
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Early years
SEND
Funding
Special needs
Jan 28, 2020
Practitioners' views sought on SEND funding
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Early years
SEND
Funding
Special needs
Jan 28, 2020
Children with special educational needs are being denied an education
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Special needs
EHC
Jan 25, 2020
'My dyslexic daughter can't get the help she needs now because she's a Welsh speaker'
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Wales
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Welsh
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Jan 23, 2020
Schools 'failing to meet legal duties for disabled pupils'
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Special needs
Pupil support
Disabled
Jan 23, 2020
More than 80 per cent of children in care 'receive SEND support'
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SEND
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In care
Jan 23, 2020
Four out of five children in care have special educational needs
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In care
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SEND
Pupil support
Jan 23, 2020
High-tech products to level the playing field for disabled pupils
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Disabled
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Special needs
Pupil support
Jan 22, 2020
Pioneering edtech trial to help pupils with SEND
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Ed tech
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Technology
Jan 22, 2020
Thousands of children with SEND 'not enrolled in school'
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SEND
Special needs
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Jan 21, 2020
Ofsted: Leaders have 'weak understanding' of SEND
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SEND
Special needs
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Ofsted
Jan 21, 2020
Government's £780m SEND cash injection swallowed up by funding black holes
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Deficit
Jan 20, 2020
SEND system 'is more adversarial than ever'
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
Jan 15, 2020
SEND funds problem 'enormous', says MAT head
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School funding
SEND
Special needs
Jan 2, 2020
TES Scotland's 10 people of the year: Campaigning mother, Beth Morrison
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SEND
Scotland
Restraint
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Seclusion
Dec 28, 2019
Denials of requests for SEND pupil plans up 14%
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SEND
EHCPs
Special needs
Dec 28, 2019
Essex children faced with 'inequality' in special needs provision
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Inequality
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SEND
Regional inequality
Dec 24, 2019
5 ways to support dyslexic pupils in your class
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Dyslexia
Literacy
Special needs
Dec 22, 2019
Rescuing educational inclusion for autistic children
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Autism
Inclusion
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SEND
Dec 19, 2019
Schools must do homework on extra needs
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Special needs
Disability
Dec 15, 2019
Pushy parents court special needs support in schools
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Special needs
Scotland
Dec 15, 2019
Election 2019 – How the new government might ease SEND struggles over EHCPs
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Pupil support
Dec 12, 2019
What are the pros and cons of keeping EHCPs?
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Pupil support
SEND
EHCPs
Dec 11, 2019
Just three pupils permanently excluded in Scotland
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Pupil exclusions
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ASN
Dec 10, 2019
Autism: Why all teachers need to use the same terms
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Autism
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ASD
Dec 8, 2019
Teaching assistant 'hit with a chair' by pupil did not die from assault or injury
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Dec 2, 2019
Police investigate teaching assistant's death after school row
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Wales
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Dec 2, 2019
Have you had a legal battle with your council over SEN funding?
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Special needs
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Funding
Legal action
Dec 2, 2019
Ex-Walsall special school teacher banned 'after hitting pupils'
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Misconduct
Nov 27, 2019
Banned: Teacher who threatened to break pupil's legs
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Teacher ban
SEND
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Misconduct
Nov 27, 2019
Progress 8 fails pupils with special needs
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Progress 8
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DfE
Nov 23, 2019
Our pledge to vulnerable children
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Special needs
SEND
Nov 22, 2019
Ireland: Teaching union unhappy over minister’s special needs pledge
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Ireland
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SEND
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Nov 21, 2019
Analysis: Are EHCPs a problem or the solution for SEND?
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Pupil support
Nov 18, 2019
Westminster schools awarded £2.1m to increase SEND provision
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Nov 18, 2019
What works best for children with SEND works best for all children
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
Nov 17, 2019
Every teacher should try special education
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Special needs
ASN
Nov 16, 2019
Two thirds of teachers rate send provision as 'poor'
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SEND
Special needs
Nov 15, 2019
SEND provision poll results
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SEND
Special needs
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Nov 15, 2019
Just 2% of teachers 'say DfE is good enough on SEND'
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Pupil support
Nov 15, 2019
Heads calling for revolution in SEND support
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EHCPs
Nov 14, 2019
How can we stop segregating children with SEND?
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Special needs
Segregation
Nov 11, 2019
Call for reform of pupil exclusions 'as schools unaware of legal duties'
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SEND
Nov 11, 2019
‘Treacle of bureaucracy’: report on special educational needs is a huge relief for parents like me | John Harris
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Pupil support
Nov 5, 2019
Losing sight not enough for special needs funding
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Special needs
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Nov 2, 2019
The Guardian view on special needs education: restore confidence in a failing system | Editorial
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Special needs
Robert Halfon
DfE
Oct 27, 2019
Children with special educational needs are being let down
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SEND
Special needs
Pupil support
Funding
Oct 24, 2019
Government’s special educational needs reforms failing young people and parents, say MPs
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Special needs
SEND
Funding
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Oct 23, 2019
Voice welcomes SEND inquiry report
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Special needs
Funding
Pupil support
Oct 23, 2019
Education Committee on SEND
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Special needs
Funding
Pupil support
Oct 23, 2019
Education Committee's SEND report - AoC response
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Oct 23, 2019
'Tougher inspections needed' to improve SEND support
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Oct 23, 2019
Children with special educational needs are being failed by ministers, MPs warn
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Funding
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Oct 23, 2019
SEND has become inefficient and confrontational
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Pupil support
Oct 23, 2019
Families seeking SEND support left exhausted by 'adversarial and bureaucratic' system
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Pupil support
Oct 23, 2019
Call for schools to face tough new SEND inspections
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Accountability
Oct 23, 2019
SEND crisis is not just about a lack of money
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
Parents of children with special educational needs attempting suicide as schools lock them out, report suggests
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Self-harm
Oct 23, 2019
'Unlawful practices and buck passing' over special needs
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
DfE ‘set councils up to fail’ on SEND reforms, says education committee
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Education reforms
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Special needs
Oct 23, 2019
Special educational needs reforms 'failing generation of children'
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
One in seven pupils now have a special educational needs diagnosis and require extra support
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
Education committee SEND report: The 6 key recommendations
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
Parents despair at special needs ‘chaos’
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Special needs
SEND
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
One million special needs children betrayed by system in 'major social injustice'
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Special needs
SEND
Funding
Oct 23, 2019
Sign our letter to the PM and support our campaign for better SEND funding
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Oct 22, 2019
Funding cuts take toll on support for visually impaired pupils
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Visual impairment
Funding
Special needs
SEND
Pupil support
Oct 22, 2019
No golden ticket awaits parents of special needs pupils
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Special needs
SEND
Funding
Pupil support
Oct 16, 2019
Children with special educational needs or disabilities are on the frontline of the funding crisis
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Special needs
SEND
Disabled
Funding
Oct 14, 2019
Pupils lose out as £400m schools funding diverted to special needs
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Funding
Special needs
SEND
Oct 14, 2019
Propping up special needs with ‘golden ticket’ school cash
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Special needs
SEND
Oct 14, 2019
Robbing Peter to pay Paul leaves everyone unhappy
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Funding
SEND
Special needs
Oct 14, 2019
Royal National College for the Blind threatened by financial crisis
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Funding
Special needs
Oct 12, 2019
Sector reacts to SEND campaign court defeat
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
Legal action
Oct 8, 2019
Rona Tutt’s SEND summary (September 2019)
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SEND
Special needs
Oct 7, 2019
Families lose landmark SEND case against Government
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SEND
Special needs
Funding
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Oct 7, 2019
SEND court case
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Oct 7, 2019
Families lose court case over government SEND funding
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Oct 7, 2019
Families lose high court challenge over special needs funding
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Oct 7, 2019
Families lose challenge over special-needs funding
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Oct 7, 2019
Parents of children with special needs lose High Court fight against government over funding ‘crisis’
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Oct 7, 2019
SEND campaigners lose High Court case against government funding cuts
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Oct 7, 2019
High Court to rule on challenge over special educational needs funding
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Oct 7, 2019
SEND system in 'crisis' warns ombudsman as complaints rise 45 per cent
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Oct 4, 2019
Complaints about SEND support at ‘unprecedented level’
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Oct 4, 2019
'Unprecedented' SEND crisis sees pupil support blocked
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Oct 4, 2019
Parents’ complaints about support for special needs children surges as ombudsman warns of ‘system in crisis’
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Oct 4, 2019
Ofsted accused of legal breach over lack of SEND consultations
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Oct 4, 2019
'Unprecedented' level of special needs complaints upheld
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Oct 4, 2019
Support for children with special educational needs 'in crisis'
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Oct 4, 2019
System failing children with special educational needs, says ombudsman
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Oct 4, 2019
SEND system ‘in crisis’ as complaints to local government ombudsman soar
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Oct 4, 2019
Fears councils are rationing funds for special needs children
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Oct 4, 2019
‘Partial QTS’ for European SEND teachers will be scrapped under no-deal Brexit
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Oct 3, 2019
Anger over 'shameful' cuts in deaf children's education
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Oct 3, 2019
Simon Baron-Cohen: ‘Neurodiversity is the next frontier. But we’re failing autistic people’ | Saba Salman
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Oct 2, 2019
4:00 p.m. - Oral evidence session regarding support for children with special educational needs and disabilities
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Sep 30, 2019
London schools denying special needs children to help league tables
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Sep 26, 2019
Special educational needs survey 2021
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Sep 25, 2019
Inspectors criticise SEND services in South Tyneside
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Sep 16, 2019
Council criticised over 14-month SEND education delay
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Sep 12, 2019
Schools are failing pupils with special needs, despite best efforts of dedicated staff
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Sep 12, 2019
National Audit Office on SEND
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Sep 11, 2019
ASCL comment on SEND report
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Sep 11, 2019
7 ways DfE has been told to improve the SEND system
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Sep 11, 2019
Unsustainable SEND system 'fails to meet pupils needs'
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Sep 11, 2019
Children with special needs are marginalised at school, says NAO
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Sep 11, 2019
Special needs pupils without care plans 'vulnerable'
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Sep 11, 2019
Needs of children with SEND not being met, warns National Audit Office
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Sep 11, 2019
‘Shocking failure of SEND system’ highlighted in damning NAO report
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Sep 11, 2019
Williamson promises review of special needs education in England
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Sep 6, 2019
Government launches major review into support for children with SEND
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Sep 6, 2019
DfE launches major review into SEND system
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Sep 6, 2019
Boy with SEND 'put at risk' after being sent to school on farm
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Sep 4, 2019
Council 'put autistic boy at risk of harm'
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Sep 4, 2019
Extra SEND funding must boost support for deaf children, say campaigners
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Sep 3, 2019
Cautious welcome for £700m SEND boost
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Sep 2, 2019
Families 'still fighting for support' despite SEND reform
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Sep 2, 2019
Unions demand increase in special education funding
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Aug 30, 2019
Parents 'forced to pay' for SEND checks after council failures
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Aug 29, 2019
Pupils denied chance of special needs help
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Aug 19, 2019
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (July 2019)
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Aug 8, 2019
Support teachers to tackle bullying of SEND pupils, urges report
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Aug 8, 2019
The farming retreat helping children with special needs
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Aug 8, 2019
Support mainstream SEN inclusion, urges ADCS
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Aug 7, 2019
New rules on exam readers could become a headache for schools
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Aug 7, 2019
Collaborative research and perceptions of disability
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Aug 6, 2019
Parents devastated by closure of Bristol special needs school
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Aug 6, 2019
Study shows benefits of eye tests for children with autism and SEND
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Aug 6, 2019
SENCos won’t have to prove pupils need exam reader help
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Aug 5, 2019
Pupils with SEND left bullied and isolated
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Aug 2, 2019
Council invests in SEND provision with new dedicated centre
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Aug 1, 2019
Ofsted finds ‘significant’ safeguarding concerns at specialist college
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Jul 31, 2019
Specialist college rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted
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Jul 31, 2019
An open letter to my autistic son's teacher
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Jul 26, 2019
Children who don't fit? Maybe the problem is us
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Jul 25, 2019
SEND funding shortfall of £185m in London, claim councils
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Jul 24, 2019
Dear Damian Hinds, you didn’t need a ‘fresh look’ at special needs funding. You knew about the crisis | Michael Rosen
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Jul 23, 2019
Scotland's national special schools battle to fill places
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Jul 22, 2019
Damian Hinds signals extra funds for special needs education
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Jul 19, 2019
Merseyside special needs school to close at short notice
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Jul 19, 2019
Unfunded SEND demand will 'break' budgets, councils say
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Jul 19, 2019
‘Anything but inclusive’: No school places for three disabled sisters
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Jul 19, 2019
Special needs education breaking our budgets, warn councils
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Jul 19, 2019
Special needs 'breaking county council budgets'
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Jul 19, 2019
The British government is failing pupils with special needs – here’s how to change that
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Jul 16, 2019
Ofsted to ask parents to rate schools on SEND
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Jul 9, 2019
Was the Sats reading paper fair for children with Send?
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Jul 9, 2019
Autism: Parents calls for more support in Northern Ireland schools
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Jul 8, 2019
Sensory integration and autism – current evidence
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Jul 6, 2019
ADCS annual conference: President hits out over SEND demands and mental health in schools
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Jul 5, 2019
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (June 2019)
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Jul 5, 2019
Special educational needs in England: January 2019
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Jul 4, 2019
Judge warns of SEND Tribunal delays
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Jul 4, 2019
Number of pupils with SEN rises for third year to 1.3m
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Jul 4, 2019
Five statistics which reveal state of SEND education
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Jul 4, 2019
Numbers of pupils with SEND rises for third year in row
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Jul 4, 2019
Funding crisis 'risks permanent damage to schools'
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Jul 1, 2019
Autism awareness: 'Better teacher training needed'
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Jul 1, 2019
Children with learning disabilities can achieve anything, if only government would support them
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Jun 27, 2019
‘Genuine crisis’ in funding for children with special educational needs risks ‘blighting their lives forever’, High Court hears
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Jun 27, 2019
Families take ministers to court over special needs education
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Jun 26, 2019
‘Education is a right’: Parents of children with special needs launch legal fight to get government to fund school places
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Jun 26, 2019
High Court told of 'genuine crisis' in special educational needs funding
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Jun 26, 2019
Families take government to court over special needs
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Jun 26, 2019
Government in High Court over special needs funding
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Jun 26, 2019
Over 8,000 young people with SEND are ‘awaiting provision’
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Jun 25, 2019
More than 8,000 with SEND have no access to education
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Jun 25, 2019
Daniel Webster: Boy with leg amputated faces school place battle
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Jun 25, 2019
School system is failing 8,500 children with special needs
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Jun 25, 2019
Healing young and old with a singalong
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Jun 22, 2019
King's College dean apologises after autistic boy ejected from chapel
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Jun 21, 2019
Hundreds of special needs pupils 'squeezed' out of school
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Jun 20, 2019
Schools mustn't see SEND as a burden
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Jun 20, 2019
The Education and Training Foundation announces three Centres for Excellence in SEND
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Jun 19, 2019
Changes to post-16 qualifications 'risk to disadvantaged young people'
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Jun 19, 2019
I had special needs help in school. But the doors that were opened for me are closing | Gerry Hart
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Jun 19, 2019
Hundreds of special needs pupils 'squeezed' out of school
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Jun 19, 2019
The 3 colleges that will share £1.2m to open centres for excellence in SEND
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Jun 19, 2019
Talis shows teachers need much more SEND training
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Jun 19, 2019
Special needs pupils ‘less likely to go from school nursery into its reception’
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Jun 10, 2019
Children with special needs discouraged from attending some primary schools
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Jun 10, 2019
Schools 'discourage' admission of pupils with SEND
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Jun 10, 2019
Special needs children who attend school nursery less likely to get reception place amid funding cuts
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Jun 10, 2019
Special educational needs in England: January 2019
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Jun 6, 2019
Councils warn of 'national special needs emergency'
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Jun 6, 2019
SEND funding in crisis: Parents demand action
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Jun 5, 2019
Why SEND funding is in crisis
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Jun 4, 2019
Parents of disabled children battling suicidal thoughts due to lack of funding and fear they can’t care for their kids safely
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Jun 2, 2019
Special educational needs children and parents hold protest
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May 30, 2019
Why thousands protested against SEND cuts today
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May 30, 2019
Families rally against special educational needs funding cuts
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May 30, 2019
Statements of SEN and EHC Plans: England 2019
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May 30, 2019
How SEND funding cuts are hitting vulnerable children
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May 30, 2019
'SEND crisis' sparks day of protests as number of EHC plans rise
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May 30, 2019
It’s not fair that getting an EHC plan could depend on your postcode
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May 30, 2019
Number of EHC plans for pupils with SEND up by 11%
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May 30, 2019
Number of EHC plans for SEND pupils soars
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May 30, 2019
SEND ‘crisis’ petition to be delivered to Number 10
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May 30, 2019
Special needs: Petition demands action on 'national crisis'
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May 30, 2019
Nationwide protest to highlight SEND crisis
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May 30, 2019
Ofsted demands written statement from council over SEND provision problems
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May 29, 2019
SEND schooling needs to counter fear and offer hope
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May 24, 2019
Statements of SEN and EHC Plans: England 2019
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May 23, 2019
Ombudsman slams council over excessive EHC plan waiting times
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May 23, 2019
Why SEND pupils are victims of austerity
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May 22, 2019
Students in affluent school districts are getting more time to sit their SATs
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May 21, 2019
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (May 2019)
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May 21, 2019
We must do more to end confusion of SEND system, admits minister
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May 21, 2019
Train specialist SEND teachers, minister suggests
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Nick Gibb
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May 21, 2019
Nick Gibb is ‘persuadable’ to SEND-specific teacher training route
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May 21, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities
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Education Committee
May 21, 2019
More guidance needed to make strategic special educational needs professional development decisions
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May 20, 2019
Call for reform of system treating children with SEN as mental health inpatients
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May 20, 2019
Inspectors call for DfE to step in over SEND failings in Surrey
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DfE
May 17, 2019
Old SEND terms were awful. But are ours better?
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May 15, 2019
Stevenage pupil taking GCSEs using eye movement
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May 15, 2019
Vulnerable pupils are paying the price for cuts | Alice Thomson
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May 15, 2019
'Weak' support for disabled children in Wokingham
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May 13, 2019
Fee-paying children get more special needs help
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May 13, 2019
Autistic children in NI schools trebles in a decade
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May 10, 2019
Old SEND terms were awful. But are ours better?
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May 10, 2019
Council chief faces MPs over SEND challenges
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May 9, 2019
Children with SEND are 'real priority' in spending review
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May 9, 2019
Austerity means my autistic son's educational future is at risk
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May 9, 2019
One primary head: ‘I can't think of a single successful Camhs referral in years’
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May 8, 2019
Special needs exclusions in Walsall 'disproportionate'
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May 8, 2019
Council sent letter to schools advising against applying for EHCPs
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May 8, 2019
'Too many children' going for SEND assessments, council boss claims
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May 8, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities
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Education Committee
May 8, 2019
What more evidence does Hinds need of the SEND funding crisis?
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May 7, 2019
‘Cleansed by cuts’: schools refuse places to special needs pupils
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May 7, 2019
Excluded pupils' results 'to be part of league tables'
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May 7, 2019
Education secretary calls on schools to expel fewer pupils
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May 7, 2019
Hinds launches evidence review into school SEND funding
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Damian Hinds
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May 3, 2019
Councils' approach to supporting children with SEND examined
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May 3, 2019
SEND consultation
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May 3, 2019
SEND and AP provision: call for evidence
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May 3, 2019
Education Secretary to work with sector on special needs funding
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May 3, 2019
DfE launches consultation on improving SEND funding arrangements for colleges
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May 3, 2019
Education secretary launches SEND funding ‘call for evidence’ at NAHT Annual Conference
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May 3, 2019
Ministers concerned over ‘continuing drift’ of SEND pupils to special and AP schools
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May 3, 2019
DfE launches call for evidence on SEND funding system
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May 3, 2019
Hinds calls for ideas to improve SEND funding system
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Damian Hinds
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May 3, 2019
Hinds asks heads how to solve special-needs budget squeeze
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SEND
May 3, 2019
Help me sort out special needs funding, Hinds tells heads
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May 3, 2019
Hinds calls for evidence from schools on special needs funding
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May 3, 2019
Hinds to seek views on funding for children with special needs
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May 3, 2019
Councils place 'unlawful hurdles' in way of parents seeking SEND support
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Apr 24, 2019
9:15 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities
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Apr 24, 2019
Number of Scottish children identified with autism doubles
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Apr 22, 2019
Autistic girl who can't speak in full sentences denied place at special school
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Apr 18, 2019
SEND - Ofsted, Care Quality Commission and the Independent Parental Special Education Advice questioned
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Disability
Apr 17, 2019
SEND provision in ‘crisis,’ teachers warn
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Disability
Apr 16, 2019
Supporting special educational needs and disabilities
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Disability
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Apr 16, 2019
Councils have SEND shortfall of £1.2bn, union warns
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Apr 15, 2019
SEND funding shortfall in schools of £1.2bn, union claims
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Funding
Apr 15, 2019
SEND underfunded by £1.2bn, says union
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Apr 15, 2019
SEND provision
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Apr 15, 2019
‘I was put in a school isolation booth more than 240 times'
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Apr 15, 2019
NEU warns of £1.2 billion SEND funding shortfall
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Unions
Strikes
Apr 15, 2019
Special-needs children lose out on £1.2bn of support, says union
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Apr 15, 2019
Special needs pupils have lost out on £1.2 billion in funding since 2015, union warns
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Apr 15, 2019
The 'untold misery' of special needs shortfalls
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Apr 15, 2019
Children with special needs forced out of school for years as funding fails to meet demand
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Apr 14, 2019
Outcomes for children looked after by LAs: 31 March 2018
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Apr 11, 2019
School apologises for requesting ‘white British’ taxi driver for pupil
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Apr 5, 2019
DfE faces legal action over pupil isolation booths
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Apr 4, 2019
9:30 a.m. - Debate on a Motion relating to Restrictive Intervention of Children and Young People
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Apr 4, 2019
SEND funding cut by 17% per pupil across England
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Apr 4, 2019
SEND funding cut by 17% in three years, warns IPPR report
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Apr 4, 2019
Funding for pupils with special educational needs drops 17%
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Apr 4, 2019
Government treats pupils with SEND like 'second-class citizens'
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Apr 3, 2019
ADHD: Dreaming, distracted or wired differently? Part 1 - causes and symptoms
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Apr 3, 2019
EdTech Strategy marks ‘new era’ for schools
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Apr 3, 2019
Mother of autistic girl who tried to take own life in school isolation booth threatens to sue government
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Apr 3, 2019
High Needs Funding: An overview of the key issues
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Apr 3, 2019
Schools could be unlawfully discriminating against these pupils
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Apr 3, 2019
Mother sues over daughter's suicide attempt in school isolation booth
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Apr 3, 2019
Kent 'does not care' about children with SEND, parents claim
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Apr 2, 2019
One in 7 Ofsted teacher training reports never mention SEND, new research finds
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Apr 2, 2019
Ofsted told to ‘match up rhetoric with action’ over SEND training
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Apr 2, 2019
'She was so desperate, she swallowed a toothbrush'
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Apr 1, 2019
School exclusions: Mother had 'no help' for son
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Apr 1, 2019
Parents of autistic children often face a tough linguistic choice – but bilingualism can be of huge benefit
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Mar 29, 2019
Minister says 'ambulance chasers' have no place in EHCP appeals
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Mar 28, 2019
Edtech can make pupils with SEND independent, minister says
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Mar 27, 2019
Scotland: Vulnerable girls being bullied at school
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Mar 27, 2019
Special educational needs require inclusion | Letters
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Mar 25, 2019
Scotland: Fall in specialist teachers for children with additional needs
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Mar 21, 2019
DfE pledges £31m to address educational psychologist shortages
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Mar 21, 2019
Multi-million pound fund to train more educational psychologists in schools
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Mar 20, 2019
'We're not just SEND, we're humans,' pupils tell MPs
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Mar 19, 2019
'We're not problems,' Send youngsters tell MPs
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Mar 19, 2019
Ethnic minority pupils disproportionately identified with special educational needs
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Mar 19, 2019
Scotland: Parents 'kept in the dark' over teacher struck off for force-feeding toast to autistic boy
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Mar 19, 2019
WATCH: Geoff Barton on why schools need £5.7bn more
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Mar 16, 2019
Autistic people asked for their views to help transform support
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Mar 14, 2019
Edtech has transformed education for our pupils with SEND
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Mar 14, 2019
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (February 2019)
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Mar 13, 2019
The councils taking money from schools for SEND
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Mar 12, 2019
Autism: How to make schools better for autistic pupils
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Mar 12, 2019
Thousands of places created in new special free schools
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Mar 11, 2019
Hinds announces SEND free schools
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Mar 11, 2019
39 new special free schools to open in England
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Mar 11, 2019
Dozens of new schools to be built for special educational needs and excluded pupils
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Mar 11, 2019
Thousands of school places to be created for pupils with special needs
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Mar 11, 2019
Government to build 37 new schools for troubled children to help tackle knife crime crisis
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Mar 11, 2019
Revealed: The 39 areas set to get new special and AP free schools
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Mar 11, 2019
Gangs target SEND pupils to sell drugs
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Mar 8, 2019
Scotland: Special needs teachers ‘receive little or no training’
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Mar 7, 2019
Scotland: Pupils with special needs facing ‘traumatic’ experiences in school
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Mar 7, 2019
Scotland: Students with autism ‘traumatised’
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Mar 7, 2019
Boy with autism left with no school to go to for 12 months
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Mar 6, 2019
Scotland: Fight for special needs support 'favours the middle class’
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Mar 6, 2019
Scotland: Pupils with additional needs face 'absolutely abhorrent' situation
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Mar 6, 2019
Council condemned for leaving boy with SEND out of education for a year
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Mar 6, 2019
SEND inquiry hears minister admit funding is 'difficult' for schools
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Mar 5, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities
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Mar 5, 2019
Landmark judicial review into SEND funding given go-ahead
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Mar 4, 2019
Government set for High Court showdown over legality of SEND funding cuts
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Mar 4, 2019
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and the health sector examined
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Mar 1, 2019
Suffolk girl with autism misses school after transfer blunder
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Feb 28, 2019
England will need 80 more special schools by 2027
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Feb 27, 2019
Where have the pupils in mainstream schools with education, health and care plans gone?
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Feb 27, 2019
Ministers investigating ‘perverse incentives’ in high needs funding
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Feb 26, 2019
Speech, language and communication needs: a quick guide
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Feb 26, 2019
Parents lobbying for new law on pupil restraint consider judicial review
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Feb 25, 2019
Strategies to deal with children with autism or ASD
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Feb 20, 2019
Private special schools 'taking advantage' of councils
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Feb 19, 2019
A child in a bedsit has more ‘character’ than a braying public schoolboy, Mr Hinds | Laura McInerney
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Feb 19, 2019
NHS failing to meet SEND support costs, say MPs
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Feb 15, 2019
Black pupils 'more likely to be diagnosed with special needs'
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Feb 15, 2019
Black pupils' schooling 'dumbed down over special needs'
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Feb 15, 2019
Parent view: This is what SEND practice should look like
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Feb 14, 2019
Schools 'taking overly macho approach to excluding pupils with SEND'
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Feb 12, 2019
Ministers must properly address the special educational needs and disability (SEND) funding crisis
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Feb 12, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities
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Feb 12, 2019
Impact of 2014 SEND reforms on local authorities examined
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Feb 7, 2019
Schools at breaking point as funding pressures hit support for SEND pupils
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Feb 6, 2019
'Nightmare' battle for parents over autistic girl's education
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Feb 6, 2019
The kids being taught at home because they’d ‘rather die than go to school’ as numbers of homeschooled children soars
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Feb 4, 2019
Landmark judicial review hands schools more power to challenge council SEND placements
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Feb 4, 2019
Meeting the needs of learners with SEND
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Feb 4, 2019
NEU survey finds schools at breaking point as funding pressures hit support for SEND pupils
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Feb 4, 2019
Scotland: Education is failing the most vulnerable children
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Feb 1, 2019
Scotland: P1 testing ‘will lead to more pupils with special needs’
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Law review on schooling for pupils with support needs
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Jan 31, 2019
Sensory 'pod' helps Charlie go to school
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Jan 30, 2019
Progress 8 for pupils with SEN: Are P8 scores really that low?
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Jan 30, 2019
Special needs overspend in eight out of 10 councils
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Jan 30, 2019
Call for SEND focus in Early Career Framework
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Jan 30, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities
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Jan 29, 2019
Committee holds roundtable discussion on post-16 support
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Jan 29, 2019
Action needed over 'significantly weak' SEND provision in Sheffield
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Jan 28, 2019
Committee holds roundtable discussion on post-16 support
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Jan 25, 2019
Does Progress 8 need refining to make it fairer?
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Jan 25, 2019
Scottish teachers 'set up to fail' vulnerable pupils
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Jan 25, 2019
Diagnosing dyslexia is ‘wrong’, says leading geneticist
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Jan 24, 2019
Three steps to managing the behaviour of pupils with SEND
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Jan 24, 2019
Agnew admits government 'concerned' about SEND tribunal costs
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Jan 22, 2019
‘Extreme concern’ over schools rejecting vulnerable pupils
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Jan 18, 2019
Parents' anger over SEND failures in Swindon
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Jan 18, 2019
More schools refusing pupils with SEND as admissions get harder to police
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Jan 17, 2019
Ombudsman slams council over SEN failings
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Jan 17, 2019
Norfolk council rebuked over special needs provision
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Jan 16, 2019
SEND - roundtable discussion with teachers and school staff
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Jan 15, 2019
Universal credit 'prompting dramatic drop in school funding'
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Jan 15, 2019
Educational psychologists forced to identify pupils’ needs ‘in one visit’, MPs told
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Jan 15, 2019
10:00 a.m. - Oral evidence session re special educational needs and disabilities inquiry
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Jan 15, 2019
Scotland: Autistic pupil’s support ‘slashed’, Nicola Sturgeon told
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Jan 11, 2019
SEND - roundtable discussion with teachers and school staff
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Jan 11, 2019
Rise in children with SEN in PVI nurseries
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Jan 11, 2019
FMQs: Severely autistic Scottish child’s help slashed under cuts
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Jan 10, 2019
The new term is a fraught time for autistic pupils
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Jan 10, 2019
Rise in SEND children stretches childcare providers' finances
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Jan 10, 2019
Neurodiversity: Unleashing potential in learners
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Jan 8, 2019
Families waiting too long for special needs support in England
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Jan 7, 2019
Meet the girl with Down's syndrome who can speak Welsh and English
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Dec 21, 2018
Down's syndrome no bar to bilingualism, study suggests
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Dec 21, 2018
Councils blocking SEND support can learn from the Christmas story
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Dec 20, 2018
Pupils with autism twice as likely to be bullied – what can teachers do?
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Dec 20, 2018
Extra SEND funding insufficient, warn children's services leaders
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Dec 17, 2018
Hinds announces extra £350m for pupils with SEND
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Damian Hinds
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Dec 16, 2018
£350m boost for pupils with special needs
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Dec 16, 2018
New funding to support children with special educational needs
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Dec 16, 2018
Children in special needs education face £1.6bn cash shortfall
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Dec 16, 2018
Surge in parents appealing over special needs provision
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Dec 14, 2018
Supporting children with autism
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Dec 14, 2018
Mother's anger after her nine-year-old son is left without education for four months
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Dec 13, 2018
Mum's despair as son, 9, out of school for six months after moving house
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Dec 13, 2018
Independent special schools and colleges
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Dec 10, 2018
Finding young people’s voices in EHCPs
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Dec 7, 2018
SEND funding crisis 'close to risking school safety'
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Dec 7, 2018
How working-class children ended up paying for the financial crisis | Owen Jones
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Dec 6, 2018
Special needs children are being betrayed by the state | Jenny Hewitson
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Dec 6, 2018
Government review to improve the lives of autistic children
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Dec 5, 2018
Teachers should not take on the role of parents
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Dec 5, 2018
Committee hears from parents on the SEND system
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Dec 4, 2018
Too many parents of special needs children are being let down
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Dec 4, 2018
Ofsted chief inspector highlights crisis in support for children with SEND
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Dec 4, 2018
Spielman: Shortcomings in SEND support a national scandal
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Dec 4, 2018
Ofsted report fails to acknowledge funding crisis
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Dec 4, 2018
Special educational needs and mental health top of the education agenda today
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Dec 4, 2018
Voice welcomes Ofsted report for highlighting ‘scandal’ of missing special needs support
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Dec 4, 2018
Ofsted Annual Report
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Dec 4, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (November 2018)
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Dec 4, 2018
NASUWT comments on Ofsted's annual report
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Dec 4, 2018
Ofsted could do more to reward schools for being inclusive
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Dec 4, 2018
Support for children with special needs is too ‘disjointed and inconsistent’, Ofsted report warns
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SEND
Dec 4, 2018
Missing special needs support 'a national scandal'
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Dec 4, 2018
Lord Porter: Without new funding, we face a looming crisis in supporting children with SEND
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Dec 3, 2018
Campaigners criticise £50m fund for grammar schools expansion
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Dec 3, 2018
Committee hears from parents on the SEND system
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Nov 30, 2018
74% of Sendcos 'lack to time support pupils'
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Nov 30, 2018
Schools funding 'near crisis point' due to SEND pressures
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SEND
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Nov 27, 2018
‘The whole system will implode’: Council bosses warn of SEND funding crisis
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SEND
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Nov 27, 2018
Seven aspects of engagement: A new approach to assessing pupils with complex disabilities
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SEND
Nov 26, 2018
Scotland: New school for vulnerable children opened in Renfrewshire
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Nov 23, 2018
Pioneering new approach to assessing pupils with complex disabilities to be introduced in schools
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Disability
Nov 22, 2018
New ‘aspects of engagement’ assessment to replace P-scales
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Disability
Nov 22, 2018
Access arrangements for SEND pupils fall for the first time in 5 years
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Nov 22, 2018
More pupils have special educational needs than you might think
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Nov 22, 2018
Scotland: Special needs school is forced to close
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Scotland
Nov 21, 2018
Special educational needs and disabilities roundtable discussion
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Education Committee
Nov 20, 2018
SEND experts call for ‘national Education Health and Care Plan template’ for pupils
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Nov 20, 2018
Scotland: Special school closes after damning inspection and financial problems
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Nov 20, 2018
Councils spent £160m on school transport for children with special needs – survey
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SEND
Nov 20, 2018
Nine out of 10 parents fear for their deaf child's future amid crisis decimating the SEND system
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Nov 20, 2018
State bill for private special school places up by 40%
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Nov 16, 2018
Analysis: SEND pupils caught in 'vicious circle'
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Nov 16, 2018
Schools admit informally excluding pupils
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Nov 16, 2018
Special educational needs and disabilities roundtable discussion
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SEND
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Disability
Nov 15, 2018
Half a billion shortfall in school SEND funding 'crisis'
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SEND
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High needs funding
Nov 15, 2018
Support for special educational needs children faces potential deficit of £536m, councils warn
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Nov 15, 2018
Councils face £536m shortfall in Send budgets, says LGA
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Nov 15, 2018
Are LGBT pupils at a disadvantage?
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Nov 14, 2018
School isolation rooms: 'It was like I didn't exist'
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Nov 12, 2018
'Hundreds of pupils spend week in school isolation booths'
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Nov 12, 2018
Hundreds of children spent whole school week in isolation booths, data finds
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Nov 12, 2018
What is neurodiversity and what should schools be doing?
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Nov 8, 2018
SEND funding grants available
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Nov 7, 2018
In this week's Tes: curriculum battles and the limits of SEND diagnosis
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Nov 2, 2018
Work experience for young people with SEND
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Oct 30, 2018
A Gradgrind ethos is destroying the school system | Simon Jenkins
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Oct 26, 2018
Bercow Review: 'Grave concerns' over lack of progress on speech and language support
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Oct 25, 2018
Supporting SEND learners by taking a neurodiversity approach
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Oct 25, 2018
Nurseries for children with special needs are at risk without funding guarantees | Roy Perry
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Oct 24, 2018
'Grave concerns' about future of council-run nurseries and support for special needs pupils as Tories refuse to guarantee vital funding
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Oct 24, 2018
Future of nurseries for children with SEND 'at risk', councils warn
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Oct 23, 2018
Petition against special needs funding cuts taken to Westminster
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Oct 23, 2018
Funding and special educational needs and disabilities examined
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Oct 23, 2018
New funding round to improve outcomes for pupils with special educational needs
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Oct 17, 2018
Tackling diversity in the classroom
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Oct 2, 2018
Parents head to High Court over special needs cuts
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Oct 2, 2018
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Oct 1, 2018
NEU unveils billboards with questions for the Education Secretary during Conservative Party Conference
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Oct 1, 2018
Supply teachers deprived of vital info
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Sep 27, 2018
Parents in England seek legal action over special needs funding cuts
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Sep 26, 2018
SEND funding cuts trigger wave of legal action
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Sep 26, 2018
Special educational needs survey 2020
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Sep 24, 2018
Inspectors criticise lack of progress on SEND reforms
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Sep 14, 2018
Independent special schools and colleges
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Sep 14, 2018
Scientists reveal drumming helps schoolchildren diagnosed with autism
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Sep 14, 2018
Hot off the press: the IOE debates series for 2018/19
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Sep 13, 2018
Learning difficulties: the 10 research priorities
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Sep 12, 2018
Special needs funding at crisis point, say school leaders
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Sep 5, 2018
Schools having to stretch SEND budgets to cover funding shortfalls, survey finds
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Sep 5, 2018
Bricks for autism: how LEGO-based therapy can help children
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Sep 4, 2018
Empty promises - the crisis in supporting children with SEND
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Sep 4, 2018
Doubling in number of pupils given extra time for Sats
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Sep 4, 2018
Children like me are just invisible
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Sep 4, 2018
Schools ‘exclude autistic pupils through lack of understanding’
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Sep 4, 2018
New research to boost job prospects for autistic graduates
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Sep 3, 2018
Autism: ‘If only I knew then what I know now’
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Sep 3, 2018
An open letter to the school that has so helped my son
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Aug 31, 2018
Special needs: How to help your child move well to senior school
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Aug 27, 2018
Investigating classroom contexts for learning for pupils with special educational needs: Class size, groupings and interactions
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Aug 23, 2018
Hinds calls on Ofsted to reward good school SEND support
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Aug 22, 2018
Independent special schools and colleges
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Aug 10, 2018
Call for better ccommunication to support adopted children with SEND
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Aug 9, 2018
Special educational needs in England: January 2018
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Aug 8, 2018
Call for action over SEND funding following legal ruling
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Aug 8, 2018
Sex and special needs: Why new schools guidance must embrace pupils with learning difficulties
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Aug 7, 2018
London Mayor urged to help tackle 'special needs timebomb'
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Jul 24, 2018
‘Severe pressure’ on schools as number of pupils with most complex needs rises by fifth
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Jul 23, 2018
Sadiq Khan urged to intervene over London’s ‘special needs timebomb’
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Jul 23, 2018
School staff inadvertently record foul-mouthed chat about autistic pupil on his mother's voicemail... after believing they had hung up
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Jul 17, 2018
School staff leave mum foul mouthed voicemail about autistic son after thinking they hung up
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Jul 17, 2018
Mum of autistic boy slams school for 'abusive' voicemail
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Jul 17, 2018
Lords examines Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill
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Jul 16, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (July 2018)
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Jul 13, 2018
IOE to develop new network of 10,000 schools to share special educational needs and disability best practice
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Jul 11, 2018
'Dear Damian, we need to talk about SEND'
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Jul 5, 2018
No uniform, addressing staff by first name, and writing in shaving foam – inside Wales’ only specialist dyslexia school
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Jul 4, 2018
Education Committee considers special educational needs and disabilities system
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Jul 3, 2018
Is technology delivering for special educational needs?
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Jul 2, 2018
IOE researchers urge government to review how drugs are prescribed to children for ADHD
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Jun 28, 2018
Reviews of changes to the SEND system examined
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Jun 28, 2018
SEN employment initiative set to expand
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Jun 21, 2018
Tackling bullying could help reduce depression in autistic teens
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Jun 21, 2018
Opening up worlds: the power of extreme personalisation
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Jun 21, 2018
Special educational needs audit resource
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Jun 21, 2018
Autism: ‘Better support will mean fewer exclusions’
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Jun 21, 2018
Transition for pupils with additional needs
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Jun 18, 2018
School Cuts coalition and local authorities tell Education Secretary more money is desperately needed for SEND pupils
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Jun 18, 2018
Councils call on government to increase funding after thousands of children with special needs left without school places
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Jun 18, 2018
Hinds challenged over ‘dangerously inadequate’ SEND funding
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Jun 18, 2018
Trainees 'should do a stint in special needs'
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Jun 15, 2018
Students who communicate electronically among guests attending Hawking memorial
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Jun 14, 2018
Exclusions of autistic pupils up 60 per cent
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Jun 7, 2018
Top 5 tips for SEND teachers
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Jun 6, 2018
Ministers unveil £50m cash boost for special needs children
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May 29, 2018
Deaf service cuts: a stark reminder of deaf education’s troubled history
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May 29, 2018
Schools given £50m to help disabled pupils
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May 29, 2018
DfE to scrap attainment targets for SEND pupils
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May 25, 2018
Reformed GCSEs put pupils with SEND '10 steps back'
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May 25, 2018
SEN reforms: Sharp increase in number of children refused support
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May 24, 2018
Children with autism are slipping through the cracks of our education system
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May 24, 2018
Statistics and analysis on statements of special educational needs (SEN) and education, health and care (EHC) plans in England
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May 24, 2018
For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer
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May 22, 2018
School exclusion review
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May 22, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (May 2018)
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May 22, 2018
'Deaf pupils need £50m more than grammar schools do'
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May 17, 2018
Councils attack ministers over need to ‘raid state school funding to support special needs children’
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May 14, 2018
The government's woeful complacency means deaf children are losing £4million of support
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May 14, 2018
Deaf children's education support 'left at breaking point' after council cuts
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May 14, 2018
Deaf children losing out as English councils cut support, charity warns
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May 14, 2018
DfE provides £27m to boost SEND support
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May 11, 2018
Deadline missed for SEND plans for 3,800 pupils
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May 10, 2018
Daily roundup 10 May: Free school meals, routine restraint, and daily mile
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May 10, 2018
Statements of SEN transferring to EHC plans: 31 March 2018
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May 10, 2018
Needs or rights? Revisiting the legacy of the Warnock report on SEND
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May 10, 2018
'We’ve come so far on inclusion – but we’ve still got so far to go'
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May 4, 2018
High needs fund 'not enough' to meet rising SEND demand, warns heads union
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May 4, 2018
SEND crisis: A teacher's perspective
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May 3, 2018
How to ensure annual reviews for pupils with SEND are meaningful
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May 3, 2018
Head teachers warn children with disabilities are hit hardest by Tory austerity agenda
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May 3, 2018
Inspectors criticise SEND support in Redcar and Cleveland
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May 2, 2018
Minister open to holding schools to account for results of excluded pupils
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May 1, 2018
Brains of young people with severe behavioural problems are ‘wired differently’
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May 1, 2018
We can't keep papering over the cracks. Vulnerable children need stable support
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May 1, 2018
Why shouldn't I be autistic and a student?
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Apr 27, 2018
Pupils ‘failed’ by educational psychologist shortages
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Apr 25, 2018
Independent special schools and colleges
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Apr 24, 2018
Blind and deaf children suffering due to national teacher shortage, claims charity
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Apr 24, 2018
Sharp rise in special needs tribunal cases blamed on 'inadequate' provision in mainstream schools
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Apr 24, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (April 2018)
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Apr 24, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (April 2018)
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Apr 19, 2018
MPs to probe success of government SEND reforms
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Apr 19, 2018
These loving mums both have sons with special needs. So why do they argue it's time to end the well-meant policy of sending them to mainstream schools?
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Apr 18, 2018
Inclusion in education works. We must respect it | Letters
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Apr 18, 2018
Students with ADHD are more likely to come from disadvantaged communities
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Apr 18, 2018
Daily roundup 18 April: Solitary confinement, selfies, and data breach
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Apr 18, 2018
Education committee to hold SEND inquiry
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Apr 18, 2018
Special educational needs and disabilities inquiry launched
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Apr 18, 2018
Excluded children and parents should be protected by ‘bill of rights’, say experts
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Apr 17, 2018
Devastated mum secretly records teachers bullying her severely autistic boy, 12
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Apr 17, 2018
Zero tolerance 'unreasonable' for SEND pupils, MPs told
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Apr 17, 2018
‘Bill of rights’ for excluded pupils must not be tick-box exercise
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Apr 17, 2018
Pupils with ADHD 'failed' by Scottish schools
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Apr 17, 2018
Scotland: Diagnosis of ADHD in children is inconsistent
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Apr 17, 2018
Daily roundup 16 April: Legal action, YOI disturbance, and fake marriage breakdowns
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Apr 16, 2018
Major expansion of school facilities for pupils with special needs in Cardiff
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Apr 16, 2018
Segregating pupils with special educational needs leaves us all poorer | John Harris
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Apr 16, 2018
Jacob says his school locked him away in a cupboard
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Apr 16, 2018
Families crowdfund legal action against special needs budget cuts
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Apr 13, 2018
SEND children at risk of exclusion as schools are forced to cut support
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Apr 11, 2018
Ministers must act to help the 'invisible children' in our schools
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Apr 10, 2018
Children with special needs lose out as schools reach 'breaking point' over funding cuts, says teachers' union
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Apr 10, 2018
Schools struggling to provide SEND support
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Apr 10, 2018
SEN: Fighting the system
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Apr 9, 2018
RNIB chief executive resigns over ‘serious incidents’ at special school in Coventry
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Apr 5, 2018
New special free schools get go-ahead from DfE
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Apr 4, 2018
Cameron Wyllie: SNP seems to think school is like a Coke advert
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Apr 4, 2018
Paddy McGuinness tells parents of autistic children: 'Don't give up hope on holidays'
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Apr 3, 2018
Teachers have sounded the alarm – it’s time to listen | Dawn Foster
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Apr 3, 2018
Children guilty of headbutting and spitting
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Apr 3, 2018
Teachers ‘headbutted, spat at and have eyes gouged by kids as young as four’
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Apr 3, 2018
Teachers kicked, bitten, spat and sworn at up to 7 times a day amid surge in violence from pupils
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Apr 2, 2018
Academic’s toolkit to aid transition into higher education for autistic students
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Mar 29, 2018
Exam system ‘creating barriers’ to SEND students
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Mar 29, 2018
DfE announces 14 new special free schools
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Mar 29, 2018
Sponsors for 14 new special needs free schools revealed
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Mar 29, 2018
'It opens their eyes': how film is giving young people lessons in life
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Mar 29, 2018
New measures to support children with SEND
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Mar 29, 2018
Children in north 'being left behind', children's commissioner warns
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Mar 26, 2018
My son has Down’s syndrome – and he belongs in a mainstream school | Sally Phillips
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Mar 26, 2018
Scouts pay out £42,000 over 11-year-old's autism claim
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Mar 26, 2018
Daily roundup 22 March: Emergency cash, youth centres, and SEN funding
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Mar 22, 2018
The travelling sales rep problem
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Mar 22, 2018
Hull schools at 'breaking point' over special educational needs
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Mar 22, 2018
Mainstream schools don’t work for many vision-impaired children
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Mar 22, 2018
Secretary of State questioned on the work of his Department
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Damian Hinds
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Mar 21, 2018
Daily roundup 21 March: SEND funding, religion, and school trip
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Mar 21, 2018
‘It was heartbreaking’: Family wins tribunal after special needs pupil excluded
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Mar 20, 2018
Bercow: 10 years on parents face 'postcode lottery' of support
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Mar 20, 2018
Secretary of State questioned on the work of his Department
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Mar 19, 2018
More than a third of parents do not think homework is helpful for primary school children, report finds
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Mar 19, 2018
School exclusions should be a last resort, not an easy way to push out difficult children
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Mar 16, 2018
DfE investigates why some children are more likely to be excluded than others
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Damian Hinds
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Mar 16, 2018
Back to school
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Mar 14, 2018
Specialist teacher numbers fall despite rise in dyslexia and autism
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Mar 14, 2018
Spring Statement
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Mar 13, 2018
Supporting pupils with SEND - 3 key messages for schools
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Mar 13, 2018
National festival for specialist education launched
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Colleges
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Mar 12, 2018
Independent special schools and colleges
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Mar 9, 2018
Extended powers SEND tribunal: national trial
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Mar 8, 2018
Support for SEND pupils threatened as DfE rejects funding requests
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Mar 8, 2018
Ofsted boss 'concerned' about surge in home education as under-pressure schools 'shovel' children back to parents
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Amanda Spielman
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Mar 7, 2018
Delays with new SEND plans creating 'significant' problems for pupils
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Mar 7, 2018
Concern over long school journeys for SEN pupils
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Mar 7, 2018
Ombudsman: Transfers of SEND pupils to EHCPs delayed by 90 weeks
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Mar 6, 2018
SEN: Fighting the system
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Mar 6, 2018
Doubling in pupils with visual impairments sparks 'urgent' call for extra support
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Mar 6, 2018
A brief history of dyslexia and the role women played in getting it recognised
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Mar 6, 2018
Scotland: Autistic girl bruised by teachers’ restraints, says mother
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Mar 6, 2018
Access to special schools in England
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Mar 2, 2018
We need to stem the crisis in SEND
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Mar 1, 2018
Zahawi rules out ringfencing school SEN funding
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Feb 22, 2018
How 1950s parents were forced to fight for children with cerebral palsy’s right to education
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Feb 22, 2018
Ireland: Special classes may be hindering some pupils
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Feb 20, 2018
DfE early years boss defends Strategy pledges
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Feb 19, 2018
Daily roundup 15 February: Hinds on tour, driving bans, and death review
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Feb 15, 2018
Daily roundup 15 February: Hinds on tour, driving bans, and death review
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Feb 15, 2018
National tests and focus on disadvantaged 'could be bad for special needs pupils'
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Feb 14, 2018
SENCO Forum finally fixed three months after DfE error
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Feb 12, 2018
Schools lie to parents of vulnerable children and say they have no room amid league table pressures, report claims
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Feb 9, 2018
Scotland: Sight loss must not hold our children back
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Feb 8, 2018
Daily roundup 6 February: Home schooling, FGM, and 'paltry returns'
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Feb 6, 2018
Securing the right work placements for learners with SEND
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Feb 6, 2018
'Dumping grounds': Eight key points from today's alternative-provision hearing
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Feb 6, 2018
Zero-tolerance behaviour policies exclude more vulnerable children, MPs told
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Feb 6, 2018
Zero-tolerance behaviour policies could be illegal, SEND expert tells MPs
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Feb 6, 2018
NAHT’s joint conference with Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Feb 5, 2018
SENCO forum is back up – but only for some
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Feb 5, 2018
LKMCo: ‘Give schools £10k per vulnerable pupil to stop exclusions’
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Feb 5, 2018
Daily roundup 2 February: Fire safety, internet groomers and autistic children
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Feb 2, 2018
New research into using phonics in teaching basic English
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Jan 31, 2018
Free SEND resource launched for IAG providers and teaching staff
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Jan 30, 2018
Why there need to be more autistic characters in children’s books
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Jan 30, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (January 2018)
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Jan 29, 2018
Teaching assistants: We are kicked, spat on, hit and sworn at
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Jan 29, 2018
Attainment gap between deaf pupils and their peers widens
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Jan 26, 2018
The Communication Trust faces uncertain future
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Jan 25, 2018
'Untrammelled powers' for heads could hurt vulnerable pupils, councils claim
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Jan 24, 2018
'My son waited five years for autism diagnosis'
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Jan 24, 2018
SEN charity launches free online resources for early years
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Jan 23, 2018
SEND experts demand review of high-needs funding rules
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Jan 22, 2018
Service dogs that help young children with chronic conditions attend school proudly pose alongside their owners in heartwarming yearbook photos
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Jan 18, 2018
Daily roundup 17 January: Child victims, vasectomies, and SEND cuts
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Jan 17, 2018
Using ADHD drugs to control 'non-compliant' pupils is 'inhumane', say experts
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Jan 11, 2018
Councils to probe state of SEND system
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Jan 10, 2018
Children's minister Robert Goodwill sacked
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Jan 9, 2018
Call for specialist support for 45,000 deaf children in ‘crisis’
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Jan 8, 2018
Support for deaf children 'in crisis', study finds
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Jan 8, 2018
Educational support for deaf children 'in disarray'
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Jan 8, 2018
Educational support for deaf children in England 'in complete disarray'
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Jan 8, 2018
Deaf children are facing an education ‘crisis’, national charity warns
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Jan 8, 2018
Law flouted as pupils forced to wait more than a year for SEND support
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Jan 5, 2018
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Jan 3, 2018
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Jan 2, 2018
Is the battle for SEND inclusion won?
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Jan 2, 2018
Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)
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Dec 22, 2017
Daily roundup 22 December: Geographical divide, child sexual exploitation, and special measures
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Dec 22, 2017
The little drummer boy
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Dec 19, 2017
Children's commissioner calls for schools 'off-rolling' children to face financial penalties
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Dec 17, 2017
Council and health chiefs criticised over SEND services
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Dec 15, 2017
Daily roundup 15 December: Erasmus, harassment advice and childcare funding
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Dec 15, 2017
Autistic student in new college after 'enrolment error'
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Dec 15, 2017
Ofsted changes inspection report ‘six times’ in fight with dyslexia school
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Dec 15, 2017
Analysis: KS2 assessment results in England, 2017 (revised data)
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Dec 14, 2017
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Dec 14, 2017
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Primary league tables: Special-needs pupils struggle with new tests
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Dec 14, 2017
Ofsted slams treatment of SEND pupils across mainstream schools
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Dec 13, 2017
9 interesting things you might have missed in Ofsted’s annual report
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Dec 13, 2017
Funding shortfall for most vulnerable pupils set to triple
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Dec 8, 2017
Yoga therapy for children with SEN celebrated
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Dec 7, 2017
SEND: Payout for boy given 'unsuitable' home education
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Dec 6, 2017
Lack of support for impartial careers guidance a disappointment
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Dec 5, 2017
Daily roundup 1 December: Grouping, 'open relationship', and fast food
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Dec 1, 2017
DfE announces further £45m for SEND reforms
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Dec 1, 2017
Numbers given extra exam time soaring
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Dec 1, 2017
Number of pupils given extra time in exams rises by a third in three years
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Dec 1, 2017
More pupils given extra time to complete their exams
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Dec 1, 2017
One in six children are now given extra time in public exams, official figures show
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Nov 30, 2017
Daily roundup 30 November: Autism, children's centres, and Christmas tour
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Nov 30, 2017
Government pledges £45 million to ‘fully embed’ SEND reforms
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Nov 30, 2017
Inclusive Skills Competitions - Showcasing skills to employers
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Nov 30, 2017
As BBC drama The A word shows, mainstream schools can make special needs pupils feel isolated
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Nov 30, 2017
£45m boost for young people with SEND
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Nov 30, 2017
£45m boost for young people with SEND
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Nov 30, 2017
Government urges training drive to curb restraint of disabled children
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Nov 30, 2017
Ofqual reports 26% rise in exam papers modified for access
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Nov 30, 2017
Number of pupils requesting extra time in exams rises, Ofqual data shows
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Nov 30, 2017
The UK is turning back the clock on the education of disabled children | Jonathan Bartley
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Nov 30, 2017
Inspirational work with special needs children wins Rebecca HLTA honour
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Nov 29, 2017
Four kids with SEN: It's made us better people
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Nov 29, 2017
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (November 2017)
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Nov 27, 2017
The Big Picture - Apps for SEND
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Nov 27, 2017
How many children have SEND?
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Nov 24, 2017
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Nov 23, 2017
Social participation in children with neurodisability being examined by researchers at Leeds Beckett
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Nov 22, 2017
Inside a new school for children with special educational needs
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Nov 22, 2017
SEND - what's in a number?
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Nov 20, 2017
The social model of disability
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Nov 20, 2017
Pupils on ‘SEN support’ fare worse than pupils with EHCPs
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Nov 20, 2017
Schools make autistic pupils feel isolated, report warns
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Nov 17, 2017
Scotland: Top Edinburgh private school sanctioned after ‘bullied pupil sustained lifelong injuries’
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Nov 16, 2017
Top private school denies welfare risk over bullying
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Nov 15, 2017
Top private school rapped for failing to safeguard pupil against bullies
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Nov 15, 2017
Longfield calls for action to tackle informal exclusions
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Nov 14, 2017
Adopted children '20 times more likely to be excluded'
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Nov 13, 2017
Residential special schools are 'isolated' and lack ambition, review says
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Nov 6, 2017
Education secretary John Swinney to tell schools to do more to include pupils with disabilities
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Nov 3, 2017
65% of special free schools are for autism
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Nov 3, 2017
Urgent rethink needed on NEETs and SEND learners
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Oct 31, 2017
Pupil: 'Yoga tells the worries to go away'
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Oct 26, 2017
Award-winning e-book audit signals new chapter for librarians and disabled students alike
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Oct 24, 2017
Ombudsman criticises EHC plan shortcomings
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Oct 23, 2017
Ombudsman warns councils are failing special needs learners
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Oct 23, 2017
SEND pupils missing out on school places, ombudsman warns
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Oct 23, 2017
Five things to be positive on the future of children's mental health
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Oct 19, 2017
'He hid in a cupboard - we just couldn't get him to school'
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Oct 19, 2017
Ofsted: Unofficial exclusions used too readily to deal with special needs pupils
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Oct 18, 2017
Independent special schools and colleges
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Oct 18, 2017
Special educational needs survey 2019: guide
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Oct 18, 2017
London councils warn of £100m black hole threat to school funding of special needs pupils
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Oct 18, 2017
School system failing pupils with additional needs, say leaders
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Oct 18, 2017
The UK has some great education ideas
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Oct 11, 2017
Scotland: ‘Middle-class students claim special needs to get extra time for exams’
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Oct 11, 2017
Daily roundup 10 October: Childcare, ADHD, and body issues
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Oct 10, 2017
Making the difference: Breaking the link between school exclusion and social exclusion
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Oct 10, 2017
Headteacher outcry after £7m SEND pot assigned to academy expansion
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Oct 10, 2017
Why a SEND initial teacher training pathway is a bad idea
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Sep 18, 2017
SEND: DfE scraps P-scales for assessment of pupils working below national curriculum level
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Sep 14, 2017
'Worrying rise' in number of children with autism being expelled or suspended from school
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Sep 14, 2017
Autistic student kicked off college course one week after starting
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Sep 12, 2017
Review prompted by autistic teen’s college enrolment heartbreak
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Sep 12, 2017
Special educational needs survey 2018: guide
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Sep 12, 2017
City College Norwich autistic student 'binned' from course
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Sep 12, 2017
Autistic boy turned away from Norwich college days after starting course
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Sep 11, 2017
Northern Ireland education faces £100m 'cost pressures'
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Sep 11, 2017
Councils seek more free schools to meet rising SEND demand in London
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Sep 8, 2017
7 tips for Sencos on managing the demands of the job
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Sep 8, 2017
Doctors fail to spot girls with ADHD
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Sep 6, 2017
Before Aydin Önaç reached St Olave’s, we fought him over our autistic daughter’s care | Diane Taylor and Simon Hattenstone
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Sep 5, 2017
‘People give up’ – the crisis in school support for children with special needs
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Sep 5, 2017
SEN assessment: one of the Cameron era’s most howling disasters | John Harris
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Sep 5, 2017
Private special schools ‘threatened’ by business rates proposal
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Sep 2, 2017
Going to university with dyspraxia
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Aug 31, 2017
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Aug 31, 2017
When sound, vision and motor skills do not come together literacy is like an impossible to grasp hologram
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Aug 28, 2017
Disabled student can pass journalism course after SQA U-turn
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Aug 25, 2017
Disabled student told he will fail course because he cannot write shorthand
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Aug 22, 2017
New guide for student teachers on pupils with learning difficulties
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Aug 22, 2017
'Pupils struggle because their understanding of the world is different’
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Aug 22, 2017
At university with autism: ‘My tutors saw potential’
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Aug 16, 2017
Daily roundup 14 August: Left-handed children, child poverty, SEND inspection
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Aug 14, 2017
Left-handed children 'still penalised' because teachers fail to spot signs they are struggling and do not know how to help them
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Aug 14, 2017
Government not doing enough to prevent left-handed pupils being left behind, campaigners warn
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Aug 14, 2017
For students with additional needs, universities are there to help
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Aug 12, 2017
Oxford sued for ‘mishandling’ special needs
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Aug 8, 2017
One in five children with special needs left in limbo without secondary school place
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Aug 7, 2017
Building up a library of neuroscience resources
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Aug 3, 2017
Local authorities are failing to monitor outcomes of pupils with SEND
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Aug 3, 2017
Australia: Autistic girl's heartfelt letter to Pauline Hanson after she called for children with disabilities to be taken out of 'mainstream' schools
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Jul 28, 2017
Special educational needs in England: January 2017
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Jul 28, 2017
Two students make a song in memory of George, a soldier from World War One (video)
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Jul 28, 2017
The disabled refugee with a first class Cambridge law degree (video)
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Jul 28, 2017
SEND: Round up of recent policy and personnel developments
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Jul 27, 2017
ATL comment on provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disability
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Jul 27, 2017
Bids open to create 19 new free schools for children with SEND
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Jul 27, 2017
Councils open special free schools applications, as more pupils go private
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Jul 27, 2017
Number of SEN pupils rises for the first time since 2010
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Jul 27, 2017
Ireland: dramatic rise in autism diagnoses hits taxpayers via summer tutors
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Jul 23, 2017
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Jul 22, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017
Research round-up 10 July 2017
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Autistic children self-harm warning over slow diagnosis
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Jul 7, 2017
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Jun 30, 2017
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Jun 29, 2017
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Jun 26, 2017
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Jun 22, 2017
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Jun 21, 2017
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Jun 21, 2017
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SEND fund kicks in
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Jun 12, 2017
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Jun 10, 2017
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Jun 8, 2017
NHS groups backtrack on proposals to restrict autism diagnoses
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Jun 7, 2017
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Jun 7, 2017
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Jun 7, 2017
Labour to scrap government's SEN reforms
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Jun 5, 2017
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May 31, 2017
General election special: How the election might affect you
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May 28, 2017
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May 26, 2017
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May 26, 2017
Pass or fail: election manifesto education policies analysed
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May 26, 2017
Think tanks reveal true costs of election manifesto pledges
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May 26, 2017
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May 25, 2017
Special educational needs: analysis and summary of data sources
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May 25, 2017
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May 25, 2017
Record increase in children receiving specialist SEN support
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May 25, 2017
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May 25, 2017
Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start
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May 22, 2017
Labour manifesto plans for FE and skills unveiled
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May 16, 2017
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May 16, 2017
Call for a sign language GCSE
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May 15, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon admits SNP 'must do better' on education
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May 14, 2017
Teachers from across Scotland gather for the NASUWT conference
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May 12, 2017
Scots primary school bans fidget spinners over injury fears
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May 11, 2017
SEND: updates and highlights from April 2017
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May 8, 2017
Fidget spinners banned from schools for making too much noise
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May 4, 2017
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May 4, 2017
Priorities for a new government: advice from our academics
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May 4, 2017
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Apr 27, 2017
Supported learners walk the catwalk to celebrate diversity in fashion
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West Sussex school funding crisis 'negatively affecting' pupils
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Family and Childcare Trust urges next government to make childcare work for families
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Teaching unions: Around the Easter conference halls
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Grammar school among sponsors for 111 new free schools
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Newport teaching assistant reprimand over girl tied to chair
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Children with special needs are being turned away from 'underfunded' state schools, councils report
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Mar 23, 2017
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Mar 14, 2017
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Mar 11, 2017
Progress 8 still too similar to old GCSE measure – and 5 other findings from EPI report
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Cash boost for pupils with special needs and disability
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Mar 1, 2017
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Pushy parents causing children to be misdiagnosed with special needs, research suggests
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Parents pushing for special needs diagnosis for children, survey says
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Scottish pupils needing extra help missing out because of council cuts
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Dec 16, 2016
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