The Department for Education's (DfE) green paper, Support and Aspiration: A New Approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability, which was published earlier this year, proposes wide-ranging changes for children and parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities. In the words of the DfE, the green paper aims to "give children the best chance to succeed by spotting any problems early, extending early education and childcare, and bringing together the services they need into a single assessment and a single plan covering education, health and care".
The proposals will potentially affect a large number of school-aged children. In January 2010, 220,890 (or 2.7 per cent) of pupils across all schools in England had SEN statements. There were also just under 1.5 million pupils with SEN without statements, representing 18.2 per cent of pupils across all schools.
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