The school-to-prison pipeline This “pipeline” is the understanding that what happens at school makes a huge difference to the success or failure of young people’s adult lives. UK prison evidence ...

NEW POST: 19.5% pupils with SEND in England in 2025, but don’t believe the hype: Most are still educated in mainstream schools.

The SNJ submission to the Education Select Committee was published this week. In it, we detailed 80, yes 80!, practical, workable recommendations for improving the system. Surprisingly enough, none of ...

The Government has responded after our Save SEND Legal Rights Petition passed the threshold—but it misses the point entirely.

A new report from Family Fund shows the high cost of caring for a disabled child means families must choose between heating, eating & caring ...

Is a new legal framework for disabled children’s social care necessary? While an eminent Baroness says no, but institutionalised parent-blaming show it really is, say social care legal experts ...

How legal aid may now be used by families of children excluded from school. By Sabrina Simpson, Senior Solicitor, Coram Children’s Legal Centre As one of the few solicitors in England who specialise ...

Our petition to protect SEND rights has taken off but we need 100,000 signatures so it gets debated in parliament! Please SIGN and SHARE ...

Two researchers put out a Call for Evidence from families of neurodivergent children who have experience of living in temporary accommodation ...

What kind of government is “bold” enough to scrap EHCPs from vulnerable children? What did the remarks mean for disabled children's families?

In the long-running series, “Why is it so hard to put disabled children first?” comes the Department for Education’s response to the findings of the recent Public Accounts Committee report on SEND.

Frances Akinde is a highly experienced educator and advocate for children from marginalised backgrounds. Her bio is at the end I wrote my book, “Be An Ally Not a Bystander,” because I wanted children ...