A 'graduated response' is central to the new Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice. It is not a new idea, and was also core to the 2001 SEN Code of Practice. Then, it was ...

Our Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) keeps asking me to update our 'next steps' form for the children in my key group who have been identified with special educational needs (SEN). But ...

Within the 2015 SEND Code of Practice, parents are cast as consumers, knowledge producers, knowledge seekers, budget holders and co-producers. They are required to become involved in both their own ...

Councils should be “strongly encouraged” to appoint senior social work leads with responsibility for special educational needs and disability, the government’s SEND green paper has proposed. It ...

The committee's understanding of the special educational needs and disability (SEND) code of practice is that it highlights the importance of supporting children and young people to achieve their ...

One of the four broad areas of need in the SEND Code of Practice, SEMH includes all pupils who may be experiencing a wide range of social and emotional difficulties, which manifest themselves in many ...