Tag: EHCP
Guide Dogs is launching their Children and Young People Commission.
The Commission brings together young people with lived experience, parents and professionals working in frontline services to shape new ideas and thinking, setting out...
Me? An Author
Judith Carter makes the case that the publication of a book is the ideal way to share your observations and practical experiences.
Writing a book...
The role of co-production in effective leadership of SEND
Professor Adam Boddison highlights the importance of the triangle of SEND leadership.
The Children and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice 2015...
Dyslexia and prejudice
We’re systematically stigmatizing dyslexia, writes Roger Broadbent
Stigma and prejudice
Not effectively evaluating the prevalence of dyslexia has left our education system in a perpetual state...
Point of View : solicitor : Rehabilitation after a disabling injury
Martin Usher outlines the help which may be available when a child needs ongoing care and rehabilitation.
The experience of having a child suffer a...
Trying to get back to normal
As we now start a third school year living with the Covid-19 pandemic, Douglas Silas summaries its impact on children and young people with...
Tips for taking on a local authority
Laura Robertson-Hayes navigates communication with LAs.
No parent should have to fight for their child to receive an education. Unfortunately, many parents are acutely aware...
What the law says about mainstream education (again!)
Douglas Silas looks again at what the law says about mainstream education for children and young people with SEN, bearing in mind also, the impact...
Visual impairment – habilitation study
Habilitation services need revision, argue Clare Messenger and Rory Palmer.
Every day across the UK around four children will be registered blind or partially sighted. That’s almost 1500...
Nightmare parents or lack of understanding?
Grace Williams provides the parent’s perspective
In 2020, 275,604 children were reported as having an educational, health and care plan (EHCP) in the UK with...
