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Ombudsman ruling highlights speech therapy concerns

Friday, November 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities across England have been warned to ensure they provide speech and language therapy to those children assessed as needing it.

Persistent truanting continues to decline

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of children that persistently truant from English schools has continued to decline over the past year, latest figures show.

SEN reforms 'at risk' due to slow pace of implementation

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Independent analysis of the implementation of the special educational needs (SEN) reforms has questioned whether many areas will be ready to meet the deadline in six months' time.

Timpson announces £215m to improve school SEND facilities

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Monday, March 6, 2017

| CYP Now

Councils are set to receive a slice of funding worth £215m to create more school places and improve facilities for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), it has been announced.

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.

Ombudsman criticises council over SEN support

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Thursday, November 5, 2015

| CYP Now

A council has been criticised for failing to properly support a young person with special educational needs (SEN) plan for the future.

Ofsted highlights ongoing children's services failings in Birmingham

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Friday, July 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Birmingham children's services, rated "inadequate" since 2009, is not doing enough to protect vulnerable children, according to Ofsted.

Inspectors highlight 'unacceptable' SEN delays

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

| CYP Now

Children with disabilities in a London borough are facing "unacceptable" delays in accessing support, according to health and social care inspectors.

Children with SEN will be abandoned under new rules, claim teachers

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Children with emotional and cognitive learning difficulties are being abandoned under government plans to overhaul special educational needs (SEN) provision, according to the teaching union NASUWT.

Cameron unveils plans to let private providers take control of public services

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Monday, February 21, 2011

| CYP Now

The Prime Minister has announced plans to liberate the public sector from "the grip of state control" by legislating to allow private companies and charities to compete to run the bulk of public services.

Government doubles education support funding for children in care

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The amount of additional educational support for children in care, and the number who can receive it, is to be expanded from next year as part of a £100m funding package unveiled by children's minister Edward Timpson today.

Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks

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Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

Four- and five-year-olds will be expected to sit baseline tests when they start reception school as part of a raft of changes to the way children are assessed, the government has announced.

Longfield calls for action to tackle informal exclusions

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for England has pledged to push for action to address rising numbers of vulnerable children being informally excluded by schools.

Autism restraint ruling prompts call for police training

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Friday, February 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Special educational needs (SEN) campaigners are calling for an urgent overhaul of police training, after the Court of Appeal ruled that officers breached the human rights of a young autistic boy when they restrained him.

MPs reverse amendments on legal aid

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

| CYP Now

MPs have reversed an amendment made by the House of Lords that called for children to be protected from any changes to legal aid.

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Ombudsman ruling highlights speech therapy concerns

Persistent truanting continues to decline

SEN reforms 'at risk' due to slow pace of implementation

Timpson announces £215m to improve school SEND facilities

Families give mixed verdict on SEND reforms

Ombudsman criticises council over SEN support

Ofsted highlights ongoing children's services failings in Birmingham

Inspectors highlight 'unacceptable' SEN delays

Children with SEN will be abandoned under new rules, claim teachers

Cameron unveils plans to let private providers take control of public services

Government doubles education support funding for children in care

Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks

Longfield calls for action to tackle informal exclusions

Autism restraint ruling prompts call for police training

MPs reverse amendments on legal aid

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