Press releases

This NFER report is further evidence that the complexity of pupils’ needs are placing pressure on mainstream schools due to a lack of special school places.

We need investment in making mainstream schools more inclusive, not asking them to do more with less money and fewer staff. 

Seven in eight respondents tell us the SEND resources they do have are insufficient.

The proposed model for AP has flaws which will benefit neither young people nor the staff working with them.

These figures should be a wake-up call to government to look at the wider issues affecting attendance.

We need a concerted effort to address the SEND funding crisis as well as tackling child poverty and the extreme impact that it has on children and young people's capacity to maintain regular attendance.

Labour is recognising that little can be achieved without working with, and in partnership, with teachers.

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, commenting on the latest data from Government on pupils with special educational needs.

The problems of SEND are deeply alarming and government has no effective plan to deal with them.

Whilst we welcome ambitions to transform the landscape of SEND, we remain unconvinced that the measures proposed will improve the standard of provision that is currently on offer.