EHCPs

Council fails to issue support plans for special needs children

'Without the right support children are failed' - Dudley councillor takes SEND p...

Plus 'The danger is that these changes create a loophole': head's fears over special ...

'A bottleneck rather than a safeguard': Wolverhampton MP welcomes shake-up of sp...

Phillipson vows inclusion for Send children amid concerns over support reforms

Children with current highest level of Send support set to fall from 2030

Starmer sets out reforms to address failing special needs education

Sight of children wearing ear defenders in school is ‘insane’, Richard Tice says

Children missing more than half of classes increases as overall absence falls

Government should introduce new statutory category of Send support – report

Children with Send from poorer homes facing ‘double disadvantage’

Send spending could outstrip spending by Ministry of Justice by 2029 – IFS

Parents running ‘gauntlet of horror’ to access Send support – Motherland actor

Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health, says former health se...

Ministers urged not to remove legal rights and protections for Send children

Ministers fail to rule out cutting Send school plans after campaigners’ concerns

Campaigners urge Government to keep care plans for children with Send
In total, there were 638,745 EHCPs in place in January 2025, up 10.8% on the same point last year.
Caitlin Doherty, Deputy Political Editor

Pupils with special needs ‘have to travel further to school for suitable place’

Special educational needs and disabilities school placement contract in Stafford...

Provided in press release by Walsall Council November 2024. Permission for use for LDR partners

Walsall Council’s promise to SEND kids as funding approved

Major special educational needs reforms to come ‘in due course’ – minister

See inside new Walsall school that's taken over a traditional site but has a ver...

Children with special educational needs up 33 per cent in Staffordshire

New special school planned for former Stafford care home site

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