You may have heard of the school-to-prison pipeline, where often vulnerable teens have left, or been excluded from education, found themselves caught up in gangs and/or criminal activity, and ended up ...

If you think your child’s evident (to you) needs will ensure that they will get the help they need, think again. There is a lot of information available, but it can be confusing and sometimes, ...

Special Needs Jungle covered the SEND reforms from start to finish and has charted the path of disaster ever since. Here are the posts we've written covering the subject specifically, starting with ...

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, ...

Parents and young people are generally aware an EHC Plan can remain in force until the end of the academic year in which a young person turns 25 (Section 46 Children and Families Act 2014). However, ...

Parents and young people are generally aware an EHC Plan can remain in force until the end of the academic year in which a young person turns 25 (Section 46 Children and Families Act 2014). However, ...

In the draft new SEN Code of Practice, there is a brief reference to One Page Profiles and Person Centred Planning. Some organisations and parents already use these tools and know how powerful they ...

Families registered 21,106 appeals with the SEND First Tier Tribunal in the 2023-24 academic year – 54.53% up on the previous year. That’s the largest number of appeals ever recorded in a single year, ...

Funding announcement But first, the DfE is today announcing £850m “annual investment” to councils to create new SEND and AP places in mainstream and special schools, and to improve the accessibility ...

“Labour will take a community-wide approach, improving inclusivity and expertise in mainstream schools” July 2025 Labour Manifesto In October 2024, the National Audit Office reported that the 2014 ...

If no news, send rumours* As well as this supposed White Paper, we’ve also heard rumours of the government possibly making EHCPs harder to get. But how much truth is there in these rumours/leaks?

What are Resource Bases and Units? by a mainstream school Resource Base leader In this article, I am going to concentrate on the difference between Resource Base and Unit provision. SNJ has other ...