This text ‘interrogates’ the SEND Code of Practice (updated in 2015), and provides context for understanding recent Special Educational Needs and Disability policy reform. It also considers ...

Mathieson considers how the changes will affect practice. The Children and Families Act 2014 is wide-ranging legislation updating the law as it relates to children and families. As part of this act, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...