Isos report: ‘Towards an effective and financially sustainable approach to SEND in England’: Commentary by the SEN Policy Research Forum Lead Group by Peter Gray, Co-coordinator, SEN Policy Research Forum   This commentary on the Isos report has been produced by the Lead Group of the SEN Policy Research Forum drawing on a range […]

How to fix a broken system: Starting points for an equitable and inclusive education system in England under a new government. Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow in Education Policy and Equity Education Equity Initiative – University of Birmingham   With elections approaching, in this blog post I suggest three starting points for the new […]

Fair funding for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disability in England? School funding formulas have been applied across a number of countries for at least the last 50 years. A national funding formula (NFF) was introduced in England in 2018 with the aim to provide a platform for fair funding across the country. […]

What is the consequence of more children being sent to private special schools? Gary Thomas, University of Birmingham There have been large increases in the number of children sent to non-maintained special schools in recent years. To assess the extent of this trend and its probable consequences, I and my colleagues sent Freedom […]

Klaus Wedell responds to recent SENPRF blog posts from Peter Gray and Julie Wharton & Christopher Robertson below. Julie, Christopher and Peter very pertinently query the way in which the ‘mainstream offer’ is presented in the White and Green Papers. I wonder whether the ‘confusion’ is actually a manifest indication of the lack […]

The Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care have recently launched a new green paper and associated public consultation on their proposals for Special Educational Needs and Disability and Alternative Provision in England. See  ‘SEND review: right support, right place, right time’ for more information. The consultation closes on 1 […]