The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed three new contracts supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), providing additional advice for their families and improving training for school staff.
The contracts are:
In addition to the contracts, the DfE has developed new tools in partnership with nasen and Action for Children to create a job description and specification for Level 3 early years special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs).
The DfE also announced over 98 per cent of statements of special educational needs (SEN) were successfully reviewed by local authorities by the 31 March 2018 deadline, as part of the transfer to new education, health and care (EHC) plans.
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