carers is vital, and particularly so when a child has emerging SEN. Dr Kay Mathieson provides guidance on what to think about. From admission to moving on, our conversations with parents and carers ...

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 ...

A new Improvement Plan aims to end the ‘postcode lottery’ of the SEND code of practice. Karen Faux provides a guide When the SEND code of practice was implemented in 2014, it was hoped that those ...

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 ...

One of the four broad areas of need in the SEND Code of Practice, SEMH includes all pupils who may be experiencing a wide range of social and emotional difficulties, which manifest themselves in many ...

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) ...