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Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

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  • Monday, September 28, 2015
    • | CYP Now
There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

School SEN allocations 'unfair', study finds

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  • Friday, July 17, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The way funding is allocated to schools so they can support children with special educational needs (SEN) is perceived as unfair and should be changed because it does not tally up with requirements on the ground, a report has concluded.

Families give mixed verdict on SEND reforms

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  • Wednesday, December 17, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Reforms to the special educational needs and disability (SEND) support system have helped to make the assessment process more family friendly, but has so far failed to improve the health and quality of life for children, analysis suggests.

Review: Lego-Based Therapy

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  • Tuesday, November 11, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Daniel B LeGoff, Gina Gomez de la Cuesta, G W Krauss and Simon Baron-Cohen - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - ISBN: 978-1-84905-537-6 - £14.99 - 144 pages

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 shake-up receives positive feedback

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  • Friday, August 15, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Parents of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) are largely positive about changes being introduced by the government to give them more choice over the services they use, a report has found.

Timpson confident new SEN system will start on time

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Children's minister Edward Timpson has said he is confident that local authorities will have the new special educational needs assessment and support systems in place by the 1 September target date.

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