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

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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?

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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...

Why is the Send system being overhauled – and what might change?

Sunday at 17:05 PM, via The Guardian

Labour expected to outline sweeping changes to special educational needs provision with council debt surging

Labour is due to reveal its plans to overhaul the special educational needs and disability (Send) system on Monday. But why are changes needed? And what changes are ministers likely to propose?

Continue reading…

‘Beyond worried’: the families waiting to hear how Send reform will change their lives

Sunday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Already struggling to get help, families with children with special needs are concerned changes could make things worse

At the age of 12, May Race’s son Joseph spends almost all of his time in his bedroom, too anxious, burnt out and – she says – traumatised even to join his parents and older brother downstairs most days. Joseph no longer leaves the house at all.

He is autistic and has dyslexia...

Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars?

Sunday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

This week’s question: what would happen to the world if computer said yes?

I’ve always thought it would be good to acquire an old warehouse in every town throughout the land and convert it into low-rent community...

Tories would scrap ‘debt trap’ of high interest on student loans, says Kemi Badenoch

Sunday at 15:19 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary suggests Labour’s priority is maintenance grants for poorer students rather than cutting interest

Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives would scrap the “unfair debt trap” of high interest rates on student loans, piling pressure on Labour ministers to tackle the growing outrage over the high costs.

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, admitted the system of plan...

Only 10% of boys aged 14-16 read daily for pleasure, National Literacy Trust finds

Sunday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: NLT report says time for books is being crowded out by schoolwork, screens and sports

Fewer than one in 10 boys aged 14 to 16 read daily, according to research, which found reading for pleasure was being crowded out of teenage lives by schoolwork, screens and sports.

While reading declines for both boys and girls in early adolescence, there are “signs of recovery” among girls in...

Minister says children in England will get support more quickly under Send overhaul

Sunday at 13:58 PM, via The Guardian

Bridget Phillipson says government is ‘not taking away support’ as she prepares to announce changes

UK politics live – latest updates

Bridget Phillipson has pledged that under the government’s overhaul of the special educational needs system it will take weeks for children to get access to support, not months or years – as she prepares to announce the controversial changes.

Speaking before...

Ministers lay out plans to reduce gap between poorest and most affluent pupils – UK politics live

Sunday at 11:16 AM, via The Guardian

The government plans to halve the attainment gap in England

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, will be speaking to the BBC and Sky News shortly and will likely be asked about government plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their more affluent peers.

The schools white paper, set to be...

Ministers to set out plans to halve attainment gap in England’s schools

Sunday at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

White paper proposes changing criteria under which schools get funding to support the most disadvantaged students

Plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their more affluent peers will be set out by the government on Monday.

The schools white paper will detail proposals to change the criteria under which schools receive funding to support the most...

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