By Rachel Filmer, Parent and SEND Campaigner Special Needs Jungle & Save Our Children’s Rights Response to: Brahm Norwich: How government can reduce EHCPs without limiting parents’ rights Perhaps the most confusing part of the current narrative around SEND legal rights is its contradictory nature. The government states that improved early intervention and […]

By Professor Brahm Norwich News of expected reforms to the SEND system by the Government has fuelled concerns that many of the proposals will be driven by the need for short term savings. In addition to questions about the availability of funding to make mainstream schools more inclusive, there is growing recognition that […]

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 […]

Quality and consistency of the mainstream offer (schools): Targeted Support and SEN Support – coherence or confusion?  (NB please note this blog post was updated 28 April 2022 to include information about the proposed national standards) Julie Wharton and Christopher Robertson   Targeted Support in mainstream In some respects, the White Paper (Opportunity […]