SEND

• 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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• 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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