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Letters: Education is on its knees. The government must take radical action to save it
Letters

Letters: Education is on its knees. The government must take radical action to save it

An anonymous teacher responds to the education secretary’s recent opinion piece, written for Big Issue

‘I have not been to school since I was 13. The system is failing kids with special education needs’
Katie Nellist

‘I have not been to school since I was 13. The system is failing kids with special education needs’

Katie Nellist is a young autistic woman who missed out on most of her secondary school education because of a lack of special education support. As the government consults on reforms to the system, Nellist writes about what must change

Letters: Right to Buy gets a lot of flak but it was life-changing for people like me 
Letters

Letters: Right to Buy gets a lot of flak but it was life-changing for people like me 

Thousands of people in the UK wouldn’t be homeowners were it not for Right to Buy

There’s a blind spot with the SEND reforms which could push more families into poverty
Lisa Mainwaring

There’s a blind spot with the SEND reforms which could push more families into poverty

I’m worried that even more disabled children could get lost within the SEND system after reforms
SEND

I’m worried that even more disabled children could get lost within the SEND system after reforms

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Labour’s SEND reforms will live or die in classrooms. Families know what works
Diane Johnson

Labour’s SEND reforms will live or die in classrooms. Families know what works

What will the SEND reforms mean for families and their disabled children?
SEND

What will the SEND reforms mean for families and their disabled children?

It was a traumatic, hellish fight trying to get SEND support for my daughter
SEND

It was a traumatic, hellish fight trying to get SEND support for my daughter

Meet the dads who started a podcast about their experiences raising autistic children
SEND

Meet the dads who started a podcast about their experiences raising autistic children

I left teaching because I felt eaten up by guilt that I couldn’t help SEND children like my own
SEND

I left teaching because I felt eaten up by guilt that I couldn’t help SEND children like my own

My children were out of school for more than a year as we fought to get them SEND support
SEND

My children were out of school for more than a year as we fought to get them SEND support

Mainstream school was right for my daughter. SEND changes could cause more harm than good
SEND

Mainstream school was right for my daughter. SEND changes could cause more harm than good

Families face a bitter fight for SEND support in the UK: ‘It nearly killed us emotionally and financially’
SEND

Families face a bitter fight for SEND support in the UK: ‘It nearly killed us emotionally and financially’

School standards minister dodges question from disabled boy about future of his education
Onside Takeover

School standards minister dodges question from disabled boy about future of his education

Big Issue Invest £3m loan secures future for outstanding SEND College
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest £3m loan secures future for outstanding SEND College

SEND green paper: Ministers wrong to suggest culture is the problem in underfunded schools, say experts
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SEND green paper: Ministers wrong to suggest culture is the problem in underfunded schools, say experts