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Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities completing returns for the 2024 and 2025 special educational needs person level survey (SEN2).
Information from the school census on pupils with special educational needs (SEN), and SEN provision in schools.
We’re responsible for handling appeals against local authority decisions regarding special educational needs, including a refusal to: assess a child or young person’s educational, health and care (EHC) needs reassess their EHC needs issue an EHC plan change what’s in...
Use this form to appeal a local authority’s decision not to secure an EHC needs assessment of a child or young person. This form can be used by parents or those with parental responsibility, or by a young person aged...
What local authorities need to do to prepare their case in special educational needs appeals. Replaces SEND2 and SEND27 guidance.
How to appeal a SEN decision to the First-tier Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal.
This consultation sets out proposals to enhance the UK’s resolution regime for banking institutions (banks, building societies, and PRA-designated investment firms).
Government to launch consultation on lifting the 50% cap alongside proposals on opening special faith-based academies.
How parents and local authorities should prepare their ‘working document’ before a SEND Tribunal case.
Public bodies should use this form to pay for advice on carrying out or approving work on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Use this form to apply to the tribunal to review a special educational needs case decision because of a change of circumstance.
Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2024 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal forms including the education, health and care (EHC) plan form to appeal against a decision.
An explanation of the offshore SEA process, including documentation of the most recent assessment and related consultation.
New guidance from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for visits looking at how children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are being prepared for adulthood.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
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