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20 Jul 2021
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Phillipa Stobbs, Assistant Director, Education, Council for Disabled Children
A recent piece of work by the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (the Agency) reviews a range o…
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Stories from the Ground
17 Dec 2020
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Phillipa Stobbs, Assistant Director, Education, Council for Disabled Children
The second biannual meeting of the European Agency in 2020 was held in the virtual environment of Teams. As with al…
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Summary and Guidance
11 Dec 2017
Education, Health and Care Plans: Examples of good practice
Council for Disabled Children
Now updated to include a new resource which focuses on plans from year 9 onwards.
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Summary and Guidance
27 Apr 2017
SEC's response to exclusion guidance
SEC's response to the consultation on exclusion guidance.
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30 Mar 2017
Tribunal pilot has potential to improve joint working
Government publish report on disagreement resolution and agree to extend pilot nationally
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30 Mar 2017
DfE publish results from family survey on EHC process
Findings from government survey of 13,000 parents and young people
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Report
21 Feb 2017
Understanding the needs of disabled children with complex needs or life-limiting conditions
The first analysis in 10 years of the numbers of children and young people with complex needs
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20 Jan 2017
Submit your evidence to new review into residential special schools
Dame Lenehan to lead review on residential schools on behalf of the Department for Education.
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02 Dec 2016
New Funding for Early Years
Government announce new Disability Access Fund, which will provide £615 per year for every eligible child.
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01 Sep 2016
SEND reforms two years on: where are we now?
Dame Christine Lenehan
Dame Christine looks back & gives her take on the challenges and successes so far.
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Toolkit and Multi-Media
09 Aug 2016
The SEND Review
London Leadership Strategy
This guide can be used by all schools to audit their own SEND provision.
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21 Jul 2016
Government delays introduction of changes to school & high needs funding allocations
Changes now to be introduced in 2017.
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20 Jul 2021
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Phillipa Stobbs, Assistant Director, Education, Council for Disabled Children
A recent piece of work by the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (the Agency) reviews a range o…
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Next Steps on the SEND Review: A Blog from CDC
The cross-Government SEND review was launched over two years ago. Since then a huge amount of work has taken place, ev…
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Lessons Learnt From Lockdown: The highs and lows of the pandemic's impact on disabled children and young people
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