SEND

A shortage of specialist skills among school staff for helping pupils with additional support needs has been highlighted by a Scottish parents’ organisation

Funding for Early Language Support for Every Child has been extended as part of government work testing SEND reforms

Senior leaders at Ormiston Academies Trust discuss two major projects they have undertaken with the local authority to improve SEND support in the local area

The executive chair of the Centre for Young Lives explains its new roadmap to help the government deliver a more inclusive school system – and why inclusion is so important

Special-school leaders warn they are facing a ‘crisis’, with demand for places far outstripping supply, in response to government submission to SEND inquiry

Many schools involved in the pilot scheme for free breakfast clubs are worried about not having enough funding to support pupils with SEND, a Tes survey reveals

Experts have their say on the government’s approach to initial teacher training, CPD and the Early Career Framework at the Schools and Academies Show

Department claims that under the Conservatives it created special-school places for pupils who could have been educated in mainstream schools

Across the Atlantic better integration and stronger collaboration provide a fairer system for all, writes one MP who is part of a Commons committee investigating the SEND support crisis

Opposition MSPs welcome the move but emphasise that any review must focus on ‘actions and solutions’

SEND adviser Dame Christine Lenehan says new reforms will change the ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ that the system has become

DfE scheme to make PE lessons more inclusive aims to reach more than 240,000 pupils over three years