This year the NNPCF has refreshed our report looking at the State of the nation, reflecting on the feedback received around the experiences of families and carers of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) around the country. It focuses on...
The Education Secretary, Damian Hinds has announced new measures to support children with complex needs and disabilities. In addition, a new Leadership Board for SEND will be established to improve commissioning, following recommendations from CDC Director Christine Lenehan's, Good Intentions, Good Enough, national review of residential special schools....
The Department for Education is today announcing a programme of revisits to those local areas which were asked to produce a WSoA following their SEND inspections. The revisits programme is due to start in December 2018 and will run alongside the current programme of local area...
Speech by the Secretary of State for Education to the Association of Directors of Children’s Services Conference On Thursday the 5th July, the Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds spoke to the Association of Directors of Children’s Services Conference. In what was one of the first...
People with hidden disabilities, including autism and mental health conditions are to be given the right to a Blue Badge. More here...
In December 2016, the Department for Education asked Dame Christine Lenehan to lead an independent review of the experiences and outcomes of children and young people in residential special schools and colleges. Her report ‘Good Intentions, Good Enough?’ was published in November 2017 and the...
