The children’s commissioner for England has backed the government’s focus on making mainstream schools more inclusive for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The SEND and alternative provision green paper, which puts forward a raft of proposals for reform of the SEND system in England, makes calls for mainstream provision to improve SEND support through the creation of “local inclusion plans” and “local inclusion dashboards”.
The recommendations suggest putting a legal duty on local authorities to introduce plans across early years, school, and post-16 education with support from health and care services.
