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Labour’s Send revolution is a bold, high-stakes experiment – but is it Reform-proof? | John Harris

Today at 19:47 PM, via The Guardian

Bridget Phillipson’s 10-year plan is generous in places, but her party might not be in power long enough to see it through

Whether the change is down to the shifting of the Overton window or the demise of basic decency, one awful feature of the current national conversation is becoming clearer by the day: the demonisation of disabled and vulnerable children and young people – and their...

Major changes to the Send system – can the government win over MPs and parents? – podcast

Today at 19:04 PM, via The Guardian

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the government’s long-awaited plans for the special educational needs and disabilities system. Can the controversial overhaul convince parents and MPs? Plus, the latest on the Gorton and Denton byelection

To read Jonthan Liew’s Sunday Read on the Gorton and Denton byelection, click here

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The impact of Send changes in England: four likely scenarios for children

Today at 18:29 PM, via The Guardian

We look at situations where pupils could be affected by new special educational needs and disabilities system

How will children and their families be affected by the government’s overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities (Send) provision in England’s schools? That will depend on their age, with the bulk of changes not taking effect until 2030, according to the white paper and...

Epstein files cast pall among US faculty and students: ‘I just feel a deep disappointment’

Today at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Ties to the disgraced financier run deep through the academic world, documents released by the DoJ show

Major institutions of higher education in the US are reckoning with the latest release of the Epstein files after discovering the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with board members, professors and administrators on campuses across the country.

In some cases, professors...

About 270,000 fewer children in England to get EHCPs under Send overhaul

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

New special educational needs regime to result in far fewer children being given education, health and care plans

UK politics live – latest updates

Hundreds of thousands fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be given education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of long-awaited changes announced by the education secretary on Monday.

Bridget Phillipson...

Martin Lewis ambushes Badenoch on Good Morning Britain over student loans plan

Today at 12:30 PM, via The Guardian

Finance campaigner marches on to set and tells Tory leader her policy to cut interest rates will only help top earners

UK politics live – latest updates

Kemi Badenoch has faced what could be described as the stuff of nightmares for a UK politician being interviewed about a personal finance policy: being ambushed and contradicted live on air by Martin Lewis.

As the Conservative leader was being...

Teaching union claims extra £4bn for Send overhaul just ‘drop in bucket’ compared with what’s needed – UK politics live

Today at 11:50 AM, via The Guardian

Full details of government plans to be published this morning with reforms partly driven by move to contain soaring costs

Here is the Department for Education’s news release from overnight about the Send reforms.

And this is what it says about how it will spend £4bn improving Send provision in English schools,

To dramatically improve the support mainstream schools can provide for children with...

Children with special educational needs have been let down again and again. That ends right now | Bridget Phillipson

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Too many young people go out into the world ill equipped. We’ll change that: we’ll give more rights and support to them and their families

Send support for schoolchildren in England to get £4bn overhaul

The advent of fully comprehensive education. Raising the school leaving age to 16. The introduction of a national curriculum. Each of these reforms reflected the growing value we placed on...

Monday briefing: ​Will the new Send reforms work for England’s children?

Today at 08:45 AM, via The Guardian

In today’s newsletter: Rising need​ and shrinking budgets have left England’s Send provision at a crossroads, with children’s futures hanging on the success of L​abour’s reforms

Good morning. Across many areas of England today anxious parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be packing their kids back off to school after half-term, waiting to hear what...

Go to university! No, get a trade! How can young people survive when all the paths are landmined? | Jason Okundaye

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Is it to be a degree and heavy debt when graduate jobs are shrinking? Or foregoing a degree, knowing society still worships them? Confused, angry: who wouldn’t be

Some months ago, I was at my old university, speaking to prospective sixth-form and college students about taking a degree in the arts and what future careers they could expect. It was a cohort of teenagers from underrepresented...

Send support for schoolchildren in England to be given £4bn overhaul

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

‘Generational’ reforms are a key moment for Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, and for Keir Starmer

Ministers will unveil a “generational” overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities (Send) support, pledging £4bn to transform provision in schools in England and warning councils they could lose control of Send services if they fail to meet their legal duties.

The reforms are...

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