The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) wanted to make sencos members of school leadership teams but has backtracked after opposition from groups including the teachers' union NASUWT and Local Government Employers.
Instead, draft DCSF guidance published last week calls for a member of the leadership team to be made a "champion of special education needs and disability issues", who would work closely with sencos.
NASUWT said it opposed the plan because forcing schools to include sencos on leadership teams would erode their autonomy. Darren Northcott, national officer for education at NASUWT, said: "The membership of leadership teams is up to individual schools, and we felt it would set a dangerous precedent to tell them in law who can and cannot sit on them."
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