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A “worrying” number of poorer school pupils will miss out on extra funding because of a change in the way support is allocated, unions say.

More than a third of kinship carers receive no financial support from their local authority, research by a charity has found. According to a survey of 2,000

The government’s education catch-up chief has resigned in protest over the prime minister’s scaled-down recovery plan, warning it “does not come close” to meeting the

The prime minister has promised schools in England there will be more money “coming down the track” after catch-up plans were labelled a “damp squib”.

A seven-year-old child with special educational needs is at boarding school hundreds of miles from home. Alfie Bonell, from near Loddiswell in south Devon, has

Ofsted has warned some pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are “not getting enough help” in mainstream schools — even when receiving specialist support. The

On 29 April 2021, four years after it was included in the Queen’s Speech, the Domestic Abuse Bill received Royal Assent and was signed into

Families seeking support for children with special educational needs face a “postcode lottery”, a report suggests. Children from the poorest areas are less likely to

The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in a groundbreaking case that is expected to inform the way family courts treat allegations of domestic