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The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) has recently updated its guide, Disabled Children and the Equality Act 2010: What teachers need to know and what schools need to do.

Mental Health Awareness Week takes place this year from 9th May to 15th May, and the theme for 2022 is loneliness.

The Department for Education has published its response to the consultation from January this year,  ‘School attendance: improving the consistency of support’.

The Department for Education has published accessible versions of the SEND review green paper.

This year the National Children’s Day UK is to be celebrated on Sunday 15th May and the theme this year is ‘Choose Kind’.

The facts and figures around EHC plans from the January census have been released and there have been increases across the board. 

Last week, two staff members from nasen visited Valencia, Spain for the Teacher Training and Attention in Autism (TTAA) project. As well as nasen, project members include researchers and teachers from the UK, Spain, Greece and Israel.

Mencap has launched the Big Learning Disability Survey to provide a platform for hearing the voices of people with a learning disability aged 18 and over.

Microsoft has revealed a new line of adaptive resources to support people who find the conventional keyboard and mouse layout a challenge.

A new report by Cerebra has identified that inequalities experienced by children with disabilities in health and social aspects can be better prevented through early intervention.

The Council for Disabled Children is hosting an event for participation, co-production, engagement practitioners and strategic managers from across children and young people’s health, education and social care.

The new Inclusion 2024 inclusive education hub launches today. Education practitioners across England will have access to all the essential resources for inclusive PE in one space.

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care final report has been issued after a year of research into the current system and sharing proposals for a reset on the social care system.

nasen has been successful in its bid to deliver the Universal SEND Services programme that has been funded by the Department for Education (DfE).

A new initiative to help support children's mental health is being launched, which will see school pupils complete mental health “check-ins”.

The Education Select Committee held a one-off session looking at the Green Paper SEND Review with experts from the legal sector, parent networks and local government.

Every child has a right to play which is why Scope have launched a campaign in Child Safety Week (6th-12th June) calling on the government to invest in an inclusive playground fund.

The first of the new wave of up to 60 special and alternative provision free schools will begin opening from September 2025, creating approximately 4,500 new places.

Edinburgh University have released a new resource for mainstream primary schools to introduce pupils in Key Stage 2 to the concept of neurodiversity and how it impacts the experience of school.

The latest statistics on school and pupil numbers and their characteristics has been released. All headline figures, the number of schools, pupil headcount, average class size and percentage of pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM), have increased.