Liz Hopkin says teachers are not security guards and giving them handheld scanners would not help.

Council spending on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities has soared in recent years.

Political correspondent Alexandra Topping and special educational needs student Jake with his mum, Laura, explore the government’s controversial plans for reform

Next week, the government is expected to announce its education white paper. It is a moment, as political correspondent Alexandra Topping explains, of high political peril.

Part of the proposals will be reforms to special educational...

Children to get individual support directly from school instead of via council in attempt to curb spiralling costs

Children in England with special needs will receive individual support and therapy directly from their schools as part of the government’s overhaul of England’s special education provision.

Under the plans, mainstream schools will be given commissioning budgets to spend on...

First cohort to be impacted by change – part of Send system overhaul – are currently in key stage 1, it is understood

Children with a legal right to special needs support will face a review when they move to secondary school, with the first cohort to be impacted currently in key stage 1, the Guardian understands.

A total overhaul of the special educational needs and disabilities (Send) system...

Leaks suggest plans for a complete redesign of special educational needs and disabilities support in schools.

Students say the night‑time walk between campus and the town centre feels unsafe, citing poor lighting and limited CCTV.

Demand is rising at unsustainable rate and could cost £3.4bn by 2030-31, local authorities warn

Families who have children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) should be means tested for school transport, according to councils in England, who say demand is rising “at an unsustainable rate”.

Local authorities are urging the government to be “radical” in its Send reforms,...

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

Sign-ups to Student Group Claim in England and Wales escalate amid reports of £21m payout by University College London

Tens of thousands more students who were at university during the pandemic have joined a group claim for compensation, amid reports of a £21m payout by one of the UK’s leading institutions.

Lawyers acting for student claimants said a further 30,000 from different universities...

Exclusive: UK graduates working in Germany and Belgium – and possibly other countries – informed of rises as salary threshold is cut

Britons living in some European countries face a huge rise in their student loan repayments later this year, the Guardian can reveal, in a move that threatens to trigger a fresh backlash for Rachel Reeves.

UK graduates working in Germany and Belgium – and...

The NAHT say the role of a school principal in Northern Ireland is “unsafe, unsustainable and professionally indefensible”.

Regulatory panel says teacher’s conduct fell “significantly short of the standards expected”.

Dozens of universities face legal action from students who say they missed out during the pandemic.

Scotland’s more generous benefits and public policies may have to be reconsidered, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

A Bristol primary school has been learning how to create their own music using the free programme.

Emma Taylor-Erwin admitted driving to work while under the influence of alcohol in 2019.

It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

The head teacher of a school for the deaf said the episode would help children “not feel so different”.

Parents say the starting date of government-funded childcare hours can “catch you by surprise”.

The school says the move is practical – but it echoes a wider debate over the role of uniforms.