We look at understanding Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia syndrome and how schools can help children with the condition ...

There’s been a fair bit of debate in the media in the last few months about the rising costs of transporting children and young people with SEND to their place of education. Much of this debate has ...

Special Needs Jungle provides parent-centred information, news, special needs resources and informed opinion about SEND - Special educational needs and disability, Education, Health and Care Plans, ...

Disabled children who need social care support face a confusing, outdated and unfair set of laws, which make it difficult, if not impossible, to access the care and support that could improve their ...

SNJ Mental Health Editor, Angela Kelly looks depper into why children can be traumatised by just going to school ...

Yesterday, England’s HM Courts and Tribunals Service issued their annual set of statistics about the activities of the Special Educational Needs and Disability First-Tier Tribunal (SENDIST). SENDIST ...

In this episode of SNJ in Conversation, we're talking Teaching Assistants, their role & how schools can use them effectively ...

Relax everyone, ISOS Partnership, the research darlings of local government, have fixed SEND for us all with a new offering, and what a behemoth of unwanted change it is. Junk the SEND Tribunal, cut ...

“It is time to deliver a more dignified experience for children and young people with SEND and to restore families’ confidence in the system.” That’s a quote from the Executive Summary, published ...

It seems like an ice age since the last time we this rather than just a year – but yesterday, the Department for Education published their annual statistical summary of Education, Health and Care ...

Recently, right-wing think tank, Policy Exchange, decided to insert itself into the SEND arena with a report it claimed “identifies how poor incentives have driven overdiagnosis of mental ill health ...

While we usually talk on Special Needs Jungle about SEND education, this only applies to England. In Scotland and Wales, the system is different. Some time ago, we told you about the change coming up ...