In March 2022, the Government published its long-awaited SEND Review in the form of a green paper, setting out proposals for reforms to the way the SEND system works.
On 2 March 2023, the Department for Education then published a SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, as the latest stage of the Government’s SEND Review. The Improvement Plan sets out how the Department for Education intends to proceed with the proposed changes in the green paper.
Find all our work around the SEND Review and the Improvement Plan below.
Although the green paper appeared to be laying the groundwork for a significant overhaul of the current SEND legal framework, actually nothing much is planned to change (or improve) the system now or even this year Read more
Hear our legal and policy team talking about the government’s Improvement Plan in more detail and the implications the plans will have for children and young people with SEND Read more
The government has published a SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, as the latest stage of the Government’s SEND Review - the main thing to note is that it contains no plans to change the law on support for children and young people with SEND Read more
More than 30 lawyers are calling on the Government to abandon proposals for reforming the system in England for supporting children and young people with SEND Read more
We believe the proposed reforms will, if implemented, have an overwhelmingly negative impact on children and young people with SEND - read our response to the consultation here Read more
Our legal and policy teams outline our concerns about the Government proposals and explain the implications these would have for children and young people with SEND Read more
We were invited to give evidence on the SEND Review to the House of Commons Education Committee - here's what we told MPs Read more
Watch the evidence session in full here Read more
The SEND Review includes several case studies that seemingly illustrate how the system will work following the proposed changes - we have rewritten these to show how these scenarios should actually play out if the current system worked as it should Read more
It has been seven months since the SEND green paper was published setting out proposals for reform, and three months since the public consultation on these proposals ended - so, what’s next? Read more