This post addresses one of the topics I get asked about most – student passports – and shares a frequently requested video clip. We first started trialling the use of student passports in 2012. Looking back at what I wrote about them in December 2013, my thinking remains the same: ‘For the whole of...

Personal budgets have been a feature of the SEND reforms from inception, yet national statistics show they are relatively unused. Perhaps the KIDS project has the answer. There were 1,360 new educational health care (EHC) plans issued in 2014 and 2,765 EHC plans transferred from statements or LDAs...

Jamie, dad of Thomas, Year 11, talks about his experience of the transition from statement to EHC plan with a neighbouring LA. Thomas' background My son, Thomas, was born at 2.45pm on 18 th November 1998. In the first hours of his life Tom suffered a bleed to the brain, stopped breathing, his heart...

Attending the 25th anniversary celebration of the publication of Disability equality in the classroom: a human rights issue was an inspirational experience. Continuing from my post They said we couldn’t do it , I wanted to highlight here the powerful messages of two other keynote addresses from...