Minister: Labour private schools VAT plan could push up EHCP rates Labour refused to confirm details of its EHCPs exemption, despite multiple requests for clarification
SEND reforms a decade on: How it went wrong, and how to fix it Schools Week speaks to experts and key decision-makers as system faces crisis 10 years after the children and families act
SEND: Some schools ‘resist’ admitting children with EHCPs – adjudicator ‘Small number’ of councils tell admissions watchdog of an ‘increase in reluctance of schools’ to be named in support plans
Revealed: The trusts to run 30 new special free schools However three other promised schools are yet to have a trust appointed after none was found
Pushy parents 鈥榥ot to blame鈥� as schools lead surge in bids for EHCPs Councils told to explain why families’ ECHP requests are ‘disproportionately’ snubbed as applications rocket
Ministers withhold 拢18m from five ‘safety valve’ councils LAs’ SEND bailout agreements ‘subject to review’, as more councils agree deals totalling 拢230m
Two-thirds of special schools full or over capacity, new data shows New data published after Schools Week investigations into bursting special school classrooms
Ministers reject council’s 15-year safety valve plan Council chief said they ‘acted with integrity’ over controversial SEND deal
Revealed: Councils slice 拢67m from school budgets to prop up SEND deficits Four-fold increase in the school funding councils have shifted to fill high needs budget blackholes