The government’s own children’s commissioner has warned ministers their reforms to fix the broken SEND system risk “more years of children being fed” into a “vicious cycle” of poor outcomes.
The Department for Education published its delayed special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) improvement plan this morning. The review was launched in September 2019, 1,274 days ago.
But many of the major reforms won’t actually be rolled out nationwide until potentially 2026.
The green paper, published in March last year, proposed legislation for new national SEND standards and funding tariffs, as there has been “too much local discretion”.
