Knowing how to manage 'difficult' conversations with parents and carers is vital, and particularly so when a child has emerging SEN. Dr Kay Mathieson provides guidance on what to think about.

Within the 2015 SEND Code of Practice, parents are cast as consumers, knowledge producers, knowledge seekers, budget holders and co-producers. They are required to become involved in both their own ...

A new Improvement Plan aims to end the ‘postcode lottery’ of the SEND code of practice. Karen Faux provides a guide When the SEND code of practice was implemented in 2014, it was hoped that those ...

The visits will consider all phases of a child with SEND’s transition to adulthood, beginning with the early years and looking at areas including health, work, education. Arrangements including ...

It proposed amending the SEND code of practice to urge councils to appoint designated social care officers (DCSOs), who would be responsible for engagement between children’s social care and special ...

One of the four broad areas of need in the SEND Code of Practice, SEMH includes all pupils who may be experiencing a wide range of social and emotional difficulties, which manifest themselves in many ...