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Legal Update: Parent power in EHCPs

An important decision from the Upper Tribunal has upheld a holistic interpretation of section 9 of the Education Act 1996, the general principle that children will be educated in accordance with their parents’ wishes, with a duty on the local authority to specify the parent’s preferred school in a child’s education, health and care plan (EHCP) if it is considered suitable for their needs, offers “efficient” education and avoids unreasonable public expenditure.

Legal Update: School governing body reforms

    Other
  • Monday, March 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Charlotte Gore, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, considers government proposals for overhauling governing bodies for maintained schools, doing away with the current two-tier system.

Legal Update: Blocked from higher education

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explains why proposed changes to student support regulations are so significant for young people with immigration issues.

SEN reforms: Fewer than one in five children transferred

    News
  • Thursday, May 26, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Fewer than one in five children with special educational needs (SEN) have been successfully transferred onto an education, health and care (EHC) plan as part of government efforts to transform the system, it has emerged.

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