IPSEA's responses to government initiatives

February 2006: IPSEA sends parliamentary committee new evidence More ...
October 2005: IPSEA defends children's right to assessment and statements in its submission to Parliament: More ...
February 2004: Government's new SEN strategy: IPSEA says strategy is misleading, inadequate and ignores LEA law-breakers
January 2003: Alert on proposed Scottish legislation: "Scottish Bill on special education will remove disabled children's legal rights to the educational provision their needs call for"
July 2002 IPSEA responds to the Audit Commission's report Statutory assessment and statements of SEN: in need of review?
November 2001: Response to the DfES Consultation on Exclusion Appeals Panels
2 July 2001: IPSEA obtains Counsel's opinion that new Code is unlawful and issues alert to voluntary organisations and to Parliament.
November 2000: in advance of the Queen’s announcement of anti-discrimination legislation, IPSEA responds
April 2000: SEN and Disability Rights in Education Bill consultation
October 1999: Placating ‘peasants’: response to the proposals for conciliation
March 1999: Proposal to revise the Code of Practice
December 1997: Green Paper
May 1997: The SEN Initiative: prejudicing children's legal rights

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