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Matt (he/him) has two deaf children. He has over 20 years of experience grappling with the SEND system as a parent, and he’s seen the best and the worst that the SEND system offers. Matt specialises ...

What do appeal outcomes look like, and how much does this cost the public purse? In 2022-23, SENDIST panels upheld the local authority’s original decision in 139 of the 7,968 appeals that went to a ...

SNJ Mental Health Editor, Angela Kelly looks depper into why children can be traumatised by just going to school ...

EXCLUSIVE: Advanced plans for digital, standardised EHCPs have been ditched by the DfE. Is Labour aiming to dump statutory SEND completely?

SEND parent Amber Windsor highlights the insidious forked-tongues pretending to care about SEND families while aiming to kill their rights ...

Next Monday, 15th September, will be a landmark Day of Action for SEND families. Thanks to the more than 122,000 people who signed our parliamentary petition, MPs will debate SEND legal rights in ...

In this episode of SNJ in Conversation, we're talking Teaching Assistants, their role & how schools can use them effectively ...

Yesterday, England’s HM Courts and Tribunals Service issued their annual set of statistics about the activities of the Special Educational Needs and Disability First-Tier Tribunal (SENDIST). SENDIST ...

It seems like an ice age since the last time we this rather than just a year – but yesterday, the Department for Education published their annual statistical summary of Education, Health and Care ...

Lies, damned lies, and inadequate fines: 100 families were lied to over EHCP annual reviews. Why councils don’t care about breaking SEND laws ...

Relax everyone, ISOS Partnership, the research darlings of local government, have fixed SEND for us all with a new offering, and what a behemoth of unwanted change it is. Junk the SEND Tribunal, cut ...