Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, ...

Why learners who rely on AAC assistive tech risk losing out from more unintended consequences of the SEND reform proposals ...

Tee-Jay’s petition is a reminder that children and young people with SEND are not passive recipients of policy initiatives.

Catriona Moore has a background in policy and communications and has worked for a number of health, social care and disability organisations. When her younger daughter was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome ...

Sharon Smith is a co-director for Special Needs Jungle and is the mother of a young lady who has Down's syndrome. She undertook doctoral research at the University of Birmingham, exploring inclusion ...

This is Part two of yesterday's article about EOTAS, the out of school EHCP package that's been completely ignored in the SEND proposals of the Schools's White Paper. One of the biggest concerns about ...

The Invisible Lifeline: Why EOTAS is Non-Negotiable for the ‘Sanctuary Cohort’, who have been ignored by the Schools White Paper's SEND proposals ...

The government’s Schools White Paper and SEND consultation set out some welcome ambitions for earlier intervention, clearer pathways and more consistent support. But they land in a system already ...

The Government keeps insisting it wants a “national conversation” on SEND, but the way it’s structuring that conversation tells a very different story. In today’s guest post, Dr Kieron Smith digs into ...

The SEND proposals in the Schools White Paper aim make the most sweeping changes to the English special educational needs and disability (SEND) system in over 30 years. Maybe you like it. Maybe you ...

DfE backtracks over consulting on planned SEND legal changes. Parents MUST respond to the consultation to say Not in Our Name!

After such a long wait for the Schools White paper and its SEND “reforms”, when they arrived yesterday (23/2) it felt like we’d been watching the ocean slowly receding before a tsunami of paperwork ...