Jan 15, 2025 · Urgent action is needed to stop a "lost generation" of children leaving school without ever getting the support they need for their special educational needs and disabilities (Send), MPs have...

Jun 18, 2024 · Since 2019, the accumulated deficit in England for Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (Send) has reached £3.2bn, according to the County Council Network, with every sign of the gap...

There is now an overarching consensus that UK provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is in crisis. As evidenced in recent reports, thousands of children are not at school, or missing regular attendance, because the …

Feb 6, 2025 · A number of recent reports have set out in detail the extent of the crisis in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system, which is letting down children and their families, creating intense pressure on local authority funding and on schools.

Jan 15, 2025 · SEND emergency: Unviable system will end in lost generation of children without reform 15 January 2025 With outcomes for children stalled, families’ confidence undermined and two-fifths of local authorities staring down bankruptcy, PAC report issues urgent warning.

Oct 24, 2024 · Ministers should consider “whole-system reform” of broken special needs education, the government’s spending watchdog has said in a damning report today. The National Audit Office said the current SEND system is “financially unsustainable”. The current intervention programmes are inadequate to resolve the issues and urgent reform is required.

Jan 16, 2025 · Schools' Send crisis: how can it be fixed? Government urged to reform support for children with special educational needs and disabilities and save councils from bankruptcy.

Aug 6, 2024 · The gap between pupils with no identified SEND and pupils with SEND support (but no EHC plan) is nearly two years. Just 30% of young people with SEND achieved a Grade 4 or higher in English and Maths in 2022/23, compared to 72% without SEND.

Jul 25, 2024 · Over half of children (58%) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have had to take time out of school because their needs could not be met;

Jan 28, 2025 · MPs were today told that putting special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support in schools on a statutory footing and giving parents routes of redress when needs are not being met would reduce the need for children to have education, health and care plans (EHCPs).