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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.

Ofsted praises SEN support in Herefordshire

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  • Tuesday, November 22, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Herefordshire County Council and local health services are working effectively to improve support for children in the area with special educational needs, an inspection has found.

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.

Councils sign up to test SEND reforms

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  • Thursday, November 7, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Ten local authorities are to test new ways of helping parents understand how personalised budgets for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) will work.

Daily roundup: school places, charity funding, and child poverty

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  • Wednesday, July 24, 2013
    • | CYP Now
There will be a shortfall of 120,000 primary school places by September warns Labour, nearly one in ten charities fear they will have closed within five years, and a growth in child poverty has forced Leeds council to review support services, all in the news today.

DfE announces voluntary sector funding

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  • Friday, May 10, 2013
    • | CYP Now
Promotion of adoption 'parties' and connecting vulnerable young people with arts and cultural facilities are among the projects that have received government voluntary sector funding.

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.

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