A council's "improvement journey"? How determined SEND parents catalogued the trail of their LA’s unlawful behaviour ...

Can you help Accountability group Measure What Matters seek legal justice for families whose children have been denied their ...

Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, ...

Research finds the Government’s SEND National Conversation “performative”, lacking pathways for young people’s inclusion ...

Sharon Smith is a co-director for Special Needs Jungle and is the mother of a young lady who has Down's syndrome. Sharon undertook doctoral research at the University of Birmingham, exploring ...

Research: SEND case officers are LAs’ “human shield” gatekeepers. But parents shouldn’t have to be their own key workers ...

Our new flow charts for the Annual Review are now available for download! Devised by SNJ Editorial Assistant, and special school head, Marguerite Haye, and made up in our flow chart style. They’re ...

Mid-December normally means just one thing in the SNJ stats gimp lair – the arrival of a fresh set of annual data about the activities of the Special Educational Needs and Disability First-Tier ...

You can also watch Nicole participate in a two-part SNJ Conversation on the subject here. It seems that not a day goes by without a new Ofsted Report, inquiry or news article about systemic failings ...

In the draft new SEN Code of Practice, there is a brief reference to One Page Profiles and Person Centred Planning. Some organisations and parents already use these tools and know how powerful they ...

Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced his autumn Budget. He also introduced the Spending Review – a document that sets out what the government will spend money on over the next three ...

Yesterday, England’s HM Courts and Tribunals Service issued their annual set of statistics about the activities of the Special Educational Needs and Disability First-Tier Tribunal (SENDIST). SENDIST ...