Getting Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for a child
Depending on their needs, your child may be eligible for DLA benefit
Schools to get AI-generated attendance targets
Department for Education reveals new attendance strategy
Finding out more about…ARFID
Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a serious eating condition in children and young people
Spotting the signs of burn-out in your SEND child or pupil
School and social pressures can be magnified when added to existing challenges
“Unsustainable” transport costs for SEND pupils to top £3 billion by 2030
National Audit Office report found councils spent five times more transporting SEND children than other pupils
New £7 million SEND Hub initiative for Lincolnshire
The Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust and Lincolnshire County Council enter "groundbreaking" collaboration
Finding out more about…ataxia
Ataxia is a rare neurological condition affecting about 10,000 people in the UK
Making careers education ‘less about careers’
One mainstream school is using tried and tested approaches to deliver careers advice for children with SEND
Finding out more about…muscular dystrophy (MD)
Around 110,000 people in the UK have MD, which mainly affects boys
Finding out more about…dyscalculia
Sometimes known as “maths dyslexia” dyscalculia affects about 6% of the population
“Broken” SEND system not fit for purpose, says inclusion task force
Demand for EHCPs has soared 250% in the last decade
Children with SEND twice as likely to be put in isolation
Report warns of lost learning time and damage to wellbeing from controversial school sanction
SEND reforms delayed until 2026 – Phillipson
The Schools White Paper had been scheduled for publication this autumn
Finding out more about…self-harming
As many as one in five children and young people in the UK self-harm
Phillipson avoids mention of EHCPs in major speech
But the education secretary promises to work with parents to 'get reforms right'
Finding out more about…global developmental delay (GDD)
A child who is significantly behind in expected milestones such as walking and talking may have GDD
The ‘double disadvantage’ facing SEND children from low-income families
Sutton Trust report shows huge inequalities in access to support
Finding out more about…pathological demand avoidance (PDA)
Also known as extreme demand avoidance or the gentler term ‘pervasive drive for autonomy’, PDA is a profile of children who have autism
Finding out more about…Down syndrome
About 40,000 people living in the UK have Down, affecting about one in 800 babies