2 minWhat Is SEN Support?All mainstream education settings have a legal duty under s.66 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (“CAFA”) to use their best...
2 minExclusions Part 2 - Permanent This is the second of a 2-Part blog post on Exclusions and looks at Permanent Exclusions (“PEx”). The first post on Fixed Term Exclusions...
2 minSchool Exclusions Part 1 - Fixed TermAccording to the latest statistics released by the Department for Education (“DfE”), children and young people with Special Educational...
2 minTransport Part 2 - Post 16This blog post looks at transport for Young People at Post 16 placements. Please see here for a post dealing with transport for children...
4 minWhat is an EHCNA? - Part 2This is the second of a two-part Blog post on the Education Health and Care Needs Assessment ("EHCNA") process and looks at what happens...
3 minWhat is an EHCNA? - Part 1EHCNA stands for Education Health and Care Needs Assessment. It is the first stage in the process of obtaining an Education Health and...
3 minWhat Is an Annual Review?An Annual Review, as the name suggests, is a yearly review of a child or young person’s Education and Health Care Plan (“EHC Plan”) and...
3 minWhat Is A Phase Transfer? Phase Transfers refer to the times at which a child or young person moves between phases of education[1]. There are six in total,...
2 minPersonal Budgets and Direct PaymentsWhen a child or young person is issued with an Education and Health Care Plan (EHC Plan) the local authority is legally required to...
3 minWhy Specify and Quantify?One of the more enduring #SENDMyths concerns the degree to which provision in section F of an Education and Health Care Plan (EHC Plan)...
2 minWhat is an Educational Psychologist?An Educational Psychologist (EP) is a professional who works with schools, families, children and young people, to support those with...
3 minWhat is SEND Advocacy?What is SEND Advocacy? SEND Advocacy, as the name suggests, is advocacy centred around SEND law, policy and practice. SEND stands for…