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MPs have heard that more teacher training and better partnership working are essential for improving our SEND support system, says the chair of the Commons Education Select Committee

Four in 10 teachers say the number of specialist support staff working with pupils with SEND in their school has fallen, NASUWT polling shows

There is plenty of research around SLD – such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia – but teachers and schools need to be involved in the development of new approaches, says Gillian Stirton

Plan to create new classifications for special schools sparked a legal challenge by parents that was backed by headteachers

Sharp rises in the number of autistic pupils and those with communication difficulties over the past 10 years revealed by new analysis

Councils’ high-needs debts are the result of an underfunded national SEND system, says new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services

Researchers have come up with a new definition of the learning difficulty, with implications for schools and policymakers. ÌÇÐÄVlog reports from the launch event

DfE warns that special schools are 8,000 students over capacity and highlights that fewer than one in 10 mainstream schools have specialist provision

Today’s figures also show that classroom teachers in Scottish schools now support over five times more pupils with ASN than in 2019

There is a risk of SEND becoming a ‘low-risk failure’ under Ofsted plans, leader warns

Warning comes as ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis reveals the local authority areas where spending has jumped by up to 477% over the past four years

Overall absence continues to fall, but figures for the most severely absent pupils have reached highest numbers since data collection began