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SEND review: Sector 'cautiously welcomes’ plans to fix special needs support system

3 mins read Education Early Years
Sector leaders have “cautiously welcomed” a raft of measures to improve support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) set out in the government’s long-awaited SEND review.
The devil will be in the implementation of proposals, sector leaders say. Picture: Adobe Stock
The devil will be in the implementation of proposals, sector leaders say. Picture: Adobe Stock

The SEND and alternative provision green paper has been published following the review into support for children with SEND which was first launched in 2019 before being blighted by delays.

A series of measures for both children and young people with SEND in mainstream education and those in alternative provision settings are laid out in the paper.

The creation of new national standards across education, health and care and a legal duty on councils to introduce “local inclusion plans” across early years, schools and post-16 education with health and care services are included in the measures, which builds on the schools white paper published yesterday (28 March).

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