Families and practitioners in KNOWSLEY, Merseyside, it's your area's Ofsted/CQC SEND inspection 29 June-3 July. Give your views on SEND provision in the feedback open NOW-9am on 23 June ofsted.smartsurvey.co.uk/p/AreaSend/1...
SEND Tribunal appeals are ⬆️ 23% compared to the same quarter last year at 29k—the highest amount ever for the time period. Disposals are also the highest in the same period at 23k ⬆️ 18%. There are 17k open cases ⬆️ 43%. We're told there's a 16-month hearing backlog
On SNJ Today: The SEND stats for 2026 track a decade of rising need. @captaink77.bsky.social's analysis shows EHCPs coming earlier and how secondary is a growing crunch point, forcing children into specialist provision.
www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-2026-tr...
Have you entered our BOOK GIVEAWAY! Journalist Saba Salman, talks about her new book, "Double Discrimination" that spotlights the human faces at the intersection of race, culture, and SEND. We have two copies to giveaway—use the form in the article: www.specialneedsjungle.com/book-giveawa...
Parents, young people with #SEND, and practitioners in ENFIELD, London. It's your area' Ofsted/CQC SEND Inspection 29 June-3 July. Give your views on provision in the feedback survey: NOW-9am on 23 June 2026: ofsted.smartsurvey.co.uk/p/AreaSend/1... More on inspections: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Have you signed the new petition? Tee-Jay needs and hundreds of thousands of children need to keep making noise: Sign to save SEND Legal Rights! Here's 3 easy actions for this half term www.specialneedsjungle.com/dont-stop-ma...
On SNJ Today: Justina Asafu-Adjaye says the SEND reform plans are contradictory: "You cannot claim to believe in early intervention while tolerating a culture that still interprets many signs of unmet SEND as a behaviour problem to be stamped out." www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-reforms...
What are your experiences of isolation rooms? What do you think about the Government’s expansion of ”inclusion bases”?
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NEW POST: SEND reforms and the forgotten children at risk of exclusion. Justina Asafu-Adjaye, says any honest assessment of SEND reform must begin with the system as it exists now, not the one being imagined in policy language. www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-reforms...
NEW POST: When “fine” at school isn’t fine at home: the hidden cost of autistic masking on families. Parent carer, Emma McDonnell writes about her experience—one that will be familiar to so many
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Journalist Saba Salman discusses her new book, "Double Discrimination" about the human faces at the intersection of race, culture, and SEND.
