It’s been something of an eventful week for both Special Needs and Special Needs Jungle. Last week, I was called up by a reporter from the Daily Telegraph to ask my views on whether I thought one in five schoolchildren really had special needs. We had a good chat and the article appeared on Saturday. [...]
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SEN Green Paper response round up and other special needs stories
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 18, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/05/18/sen-green-paper-response-round-up-and-other-special-needs-stories/
SEN Green Paper: Ministerial “Detailed response” expected next week
So, next week government ministers will set out their detailed response and reform timetable as their next steps in the SEN Green Paper. They’ve been saying it’s ‘imminent’ since February, so we’ll see what they’ve come up with. Ministers say they’ve committed to making all the necessary legal changes to put in place reforms proposed in [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 10, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/05/10/sen-green-paper-ministerial-detailed-response-expected-next-week/
Special needs experts offer views for Labour’s SEN policy review
Earlier this week, I attended a meeting at Westminster for Labour’s SEN policy review, chaired by MP, Sharon Hodgson, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Children and Families. Mrs Hodgson is herself the mother of a severely dyslexic son so if anyone understands SEN issues, she does. The issue under discussion in this one of a series of [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on March 22, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/03/22/special-needs-experts-offer-views-for-labours-sen-policy-review/
Exciting news – a conference speaking invitation
I have exciting news – I am to be a keynote speaker at the forthcoming SEN Conference, Towards a Positive Future that is to take place in Newbury in June. I will be talking about being a parent of two sons with autism and how parents-carer forums such as Family Voice Surrey, of which I [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on February 29, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/02/29/exciting-news-a-conference-speaking-invitation/
SEN conference, Towards a Positive Future, Review part one.
I attended a very interesting conference on special educational needs on Friday. It was held to mark the launch of a new organisation aimed at providing a ‘one stop shop’ to parents needing to find professional services such as speech and language and occupational therapy for their children. It aims to establish a database of [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on October 17, 2011
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2011/10/17/sen-conference-towards-a-positive-future-review-part-one/


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