Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
Current government policy and parents’ perspectives following the SEND and AP Green Paper and the new Improvement Plan.
The Department for Education has published its Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan. This is the outcome of a long process where parents and carers were consulted about changing the SEND and AP system. Parentkind responded to government citing evidence from 276 parents of children with SEND who completed our online poll about the proposed changes. This is our three-part summary of the current state of play.