SEND

• News / SEND

  Council could pull out of government bailout on special needs education

  Rising demand and costs have left a growing black hole in the council's budget

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• News / Education

  ‘Society of Merchant Venturers should play no part in the education of children’

  MP Karin Smyth slammed the organisation after a damning Ofsted report of Merchants' Academy

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• News / SEND

  Warning SEND bailout will ‘make life harder’ for disabled children

  Councillors criticised a bailout plan to rescue Bristol’s spiralling SEND budget

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• News / Education

  Bid to protect former special needs school

  Local parents and charities have backed plans for the site to be handed back to the community

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• News / SEND

  Bristol headteachers say SEND parents ‘feel like schools don’t want their children’

  The demand for SEND support for early years has doubled over the past five years

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• News / protest

  Protesters gather to advocate for special educational needs reform

  Parents gathered to protest against inadequate provisions for special needs children

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• News / SEND

  Parents slam new autism referrals rules as ‘discrimination’

  Only those who meet certain criteria can be referred for an autism diagnosis at the NHS in Bristol

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• News / SEND

  Cases of parents taking council to court over SEND delays tripled in 2022

  The rapidly increasing number of tribunal appeals shows the scale of anger among parents

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