Tag Archives: special educational needs

Support for SEN reforms, but frustration continues over funding for segregation

The coalition has received some backing from disabled people’s and disability organisations for its proposed special educational needs (SEN) reforms, but has been warned that key concerns remain over its funding for segregated schools.
Support for the reforms, which will be included in a new children and families bill early next year, came at this week’s [...]

Labour conference: Party will move ‘towards’ fully inclusive education system

A Labour government would aim to move – in the long term – towards an education system that is “fully inclusive” of disabled children, according to the MP who has led its review into special educational needs (SEN).
Sharon Hodgson told Disability News Service (DNS) that she believed that a fully inclusive system of mainstream schools [...]