Our Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) keeps asking me to update our 'next steps' form for the children in my key group who have been identified with special educational needs (SEN). But ...

Our partnership with parents is fundamental to our Early Years Foundation Stage practice, but also often an area of worry and concern for practitioners. Understanding a family journey when their child ...

Within the 2015 SEND Code of Practice, parents are cast as consumers, knowledge producers, knowledge seekers, budget holders and co-producers. They are required to become involved in both their own ...

Councils should be “strongly encouraged” to appoint senior social work leads with responsibility for special educational needs and disability, the government’s SEND green paper has proposed. It ...

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission are set to carry out a series of in depth reviews to address concerns families have about how young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) ...

Now the SEND transfer deadline has passed, councils must embed a joint approach to commissioning, says Toni Badnall-Neill. The Children and Families Act and SEND Code of Practice 2014 place a duty on ...