A quarter of children placed under a deprivation of liberty (DoL) order last year were still subject to one 12 months later, new analysis of official data shows.

The Metropolitan Police has launched a new strategy designed to improve officers’ knowledge on safeguarding children and ...

With the recent arrival of a new government, many of us in the childcare sector felt hopeful that change would be coming. But what is this change we talk about? What does it look like for workers, ...

The original idea of creating an alternative provision (AP) at Chadsgrove came as a spin off from the advisory teaching ...

The past year has been a challenging one for special education needs and disability services – surging demand, inadequate funding and a stalled reform agenda has led to warnings of a crisis in ...

Joint approach helps health, education and care services deliver effective provision for broad range of SEND children’s ...

SEND co-ordinators with lived experience trained through Hertfordshire County Council’s new SEND Academy are helping improve ...

A recent report by the charity Kids highlights how for too many young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the transition from childhood to adulthood is like falling off a ...

A surge in the number of cases referred to the SEND Tribunal backs campaigners’ concerns that the system is failing to meet ...

The number of schoolchildren assessed as having a special educational need and/or disability (SEND) has seen double digit percentage rises each year for much of the past decade. Spending on ...

Young carers are missing more than a month of the school year due to their caring responsibilities, research has found.

CoramBAAF’s James Bury analyses the government’s plans for kinship care, adoption and fostering ...