SEND

• 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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• News / SEND

  Bristol’s spending on special needs education becoming ‘unsustainable’

  Demand and costs for special educational needs is rising across the country

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• News / SEND

  Inquiry into Bristol council SEND ‘spying’ scandal delayed for months

  Parents are still waiting to find out why they were monitored

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• News / SEND

  Watchdog orders council to pay £3,800 to parents of SEN teenager

  The teenager missed out on special educational needs provision for around seven months

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• News / SEND

  Independent investigation into council’s surveillance of SEND families

  “It doesn’t matter to me if that was systematic or random – it was wrong”

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• News / SEND

  SEND failings see year seven pupil stuck in primary school

  “My son is further excluded and feeling victimised”

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• News / SEND

  Report into council’s surveillance of SEND parents branded a ‘whitewash’

  The fact-finding report found “no evidence of systematic monitoring”

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• News / bristol city council

  Ofsted returning to Bristol to check progress on improving special needs education

  The revisit comes at an awkward time for Bristol City Council, which is mired in a SEND scandal

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