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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 […]

What an analysis of the party manifestos says about SEN/disability and inclusion? by Professor Brahm Norwich   This blog discusses from a SEN/disability and inclusive education perspective the Education Policy Institute / Nuffield Foundation’s manifesto analysis by Jon Andrews, Shruti Khandekar, and Robbie Cruikshanks – General Election 2024 An analysis of manifesto plans […]

Could a new government mark the end a decade of disruption and dysfunction in SEND? Rob Webster In England, SEND policy has tended to be written in the idiom of what the sociologist, Sally Tomlinson, calls ‘benevolent humanitarianism’. The words may be warm and well-meaning, but they mask, often unsuccessfully, understrength and incomplete […]

We would like to invite you to contribute research informed blog posts relating to the forthcoming UK General Election, taking place on 4 July 2024. The SEND system is in crisis. The Government has responded by putting in place the SEND & AP Improvement plan, currently being tested in nine different Change Programme […]

You are warmly invited to our next free SEN Policy Research Forum Seminar Re-engaging with education: The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently. Our speakers are: Ellie Costello, Director, Square Peg Dr Ian Thompson, Co-Principal Investigator: Excluded Lives: The Political Economies of School Exclusion, […]

National policy framework for SEND and inclusion   Many commentators are currently arguing that SEND policy is in crisis. This is in spite of the reforms that were supposed to improve children’s and families’ experience of the system, and in which so much time and effort was invested in the early years of […]

  Julie Dockrell, who was a long-standing member of the SEN Policy Research Forum Lead Group, has decided time has come to stand down from the role. We would like to thank her for her contributions to the Forum and wish her well in her future endeavours. We are delighted to announce that […]

As some of you may know, Brahm Norwich has decided to step down as co-coordinator of the Forum, which he originally set up over 30 years ago with Klaus Wedell.   Brahm has been fundamental to the development of the Forum and has played a substantial part in organising our policy seminars, collating […]