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One in three areas fail children with special needs

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Councils and health organisations in around a third of areas are failing to effectively support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), analysis by Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission has revealed.

ADCS vice president: School transport costs 'cannot be justified'

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  • Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Statutory requirements on council provision of home-to-school transport should be reviewed, with current spending of £1bn a year "unjustifiable" in light of ongoing cuts to early help services, the vice president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

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  • Friday, March 20, 2015
    • | CYP Now
A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.

Councils 'need time' to deliver SEN reforms

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  • Friday, September 5, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) has called for local authorities to be given time to fully implement the special education needs and disability (SEND) reforms.

SEN legislation ‘built on quicksand'

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  • Thursday, May 10, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Campaigners for disabled children have warned ministers that legislation aimed at simplifying processes for children with special educational needs (SEN) will falter because of widespread reductions in specialist support services.

DfE cuts to research evaluations spark concern

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  • Monday, February 28, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Education (DfE) has cut 7.5m from research projects evaluating everything from academy schools to services for disabled children, an investigation by the Radical Statistics Group has revealed.

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