special educational needs Archives

Fight For Ordinary: Disabled Children’s Partnership’s new campaign launches today

Tuesday 22 July 2025

Contact responds to the future of Home to School Transport – new Local Government Association report out today

Wednesday 2 July 2025

Children at a school desk writing on paper

New Education Health and Care plans data shows need for SEN support to be made a legal requirement

Thursday 26 June 2025

Primary school children eating their school meal

Reforms to special educational needs system in England must not be cost led

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Contact gives evidence to Solving the SEND crisis in England inquiry

Tuesday 28 January 2025

School desk with workbooks and stationary

Contact responds to another report highlighting the SEND emergency

Wednesday 15 January 2025

Children sitting in a library setting - one child is in the foreground in focus, smiling off to the side; children are gathered behind in soft focus.

Contact reacts to Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Wednesday 8 January 2025

England’s special educational needs system in urgent need of reform, NAO report finds

Thursday 24 October 2024

Holiday time… is fast approaching or already here!

Thursday 4 July 2024

School attendance figures in England reveal more children with an EHC plan are out of school

Thursday 27 June 2024

Home education in the news

Thursday 20 June 2024

Classroom doors open to empty school hallway

Safety Valve Agreements -how they impact disabled children and their families

Thursday 16 May 2024

Parent sitting in school staircase talking to fed up child

School attendance: a parent’s view

Tuesday 30 April 2024

Mum Samantha reacts to Spring Budget 2024

Wednesday 6 March 2024

MPs recommend mental health absence code and expansion of free school meals to reduce parent fines and tackle school absence

Wednesday 27 September 2023

Graphic showing money wasted by councils on appeal tribunals

Councils in England waste £60 million on court disputes about support for children with special educational needs

Monday 25 September 2023

Children’s social care consultation event

Tuesday 1 August 2023

Absences, exclusions and anxiety: Your Top 5 school attendance questions answered

Thursday 8 December 2022

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