Education

Offering free advice on education to parents of special needs children

Provides a home based education service for pre-school children with additional needs

Website developed by the Department for Education and Skills to support parents

Service that copnsiders appeals lodged concerning decisions made by a local education authority regarding a special educational needs placement

Special Educational Needs information for parents and carers from the DfES

Assists disabled people in their use of computers and technology

Offers residential care and education for children with multiple disabilities and complex health needs

An embarassing trip to the newsagents

An update on therapy provision for our daughter, plus a discussion on society's attitude to disability

Failing to deliver school based therapy services in Dorset

Statement Innacuracies and back pain on the blog

An education success and sports gnomes in the Blog.

Education and Doctor Who chat on the blog

Education battles from the blog

Disability and mobility allowance forms are all piling up

Awaiting decisions on education placement

Ministers moved yesterday to scrap so-called sin bins for disruptive pupils and replace them with specialist centres run by private companies, charities and academies, in an admission that the policy has failed. Pupils will be removed from schools in larger numbers and at an earlier age in an attempt to prevent them being excluded later on, under the plans set out in a white paper yesterday.

Schools should appoint a member of staff to look after each pupil with disabilities or special educational needs, under new government guidelines aimed at stamping out bullying issued today.

Many children with learning difficulties are not getting the help they require.

A ground-breaking project which has had extraordinary success in helping hundreds of dyslexic children and others struggling to read and write at primary school is poised for a major expansion across Britain.

Funding for the education of children with special needs, has 'increased markedly' since Labour came to power, the schools minister Jim Knight said.

The party's policy commission on special needs in education wants to see an end to the government's policy of including children with special needs in mainstream schools, and the number of special school places restored.

Schools Minister Andrew Adonis joins Kate Griggs, founder of the charity Xtraordinary People, to launch 'No to Failure', an exciting new project that aims to ensure children with dyslexia get the support they need at school.

A girl with special needs has been off school for a year, because every Redbridge school which caters for her disabilities is full.

1 in 3 primary staff reports special needs pupils having to wait a year for statements

Increasing numbers of children with learning difficulties are being sent to education "sin bins" - to be taught beside badly behaved and often violent pupils.

Pupils with behaviour problems have been taught in makeshift offices in a "postcode lottery" of special needs provision, teachers claim.

A 13-year-old special needs pupil was left crying in the street after he was thrown off a coach waiting to take him on a school trip.

Cabinet minister Ruth Kelly has lost her complaint against the Daily Mirror over its coverage of her decision to educate her son privately.

A grandmother who has become disillusioned with the education her autistic grandsons are receiving has decided to set up her own school.

A disabled County Down student has won damages against a care company after it refused to lift her out of her wheelchair to attend university.

The standard of education for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be improved by better classroom design, but often not enough attention is given to their needs. Now, researchers Coventry University's Design Ergonomics Applied Research Group have developed a new environment that is engaging autistic children in schools through digital technology.

Pupils with special needs forced to attend mainstream secondary schools faced a "horror" that could leave them suicidal, claims Baroness Warnock, who helped to bring in the policy.

The government came under pressure yesterday to end local authorities’ role in assessing children for statements of special educational needs, in a Commons debate.

Fifteen schools were given special educational needs (SEN) status today as the government comes under increasing pressure to create more SEN places.

The costs of educating children with special needs privately risk spiralling out of control, with little indication of whether the money spent represents good value, research from the Audit Commission suggests.

The mother of a severely dyslexic teenager was so upset when his independent school faced closure because of financial difficulties that she bought it herself.

Standards in education for students with learning difficulties in further education is "uneven", Ofsted says.

Recent criticism of former education secretary Ruth Kelly for sending her son, who has special educational needs, to a private school prompted viewer Liza Turner to tell us her story.

Several distinct themes emerged from viewers' responses to the Ruth Kelly story.

Former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has enrolled one of her children in a private school, according to reports.

Essex County Council and Kent County Council both criticised by the Local Governmen Ombudsman for their handling of the education provision for a 16 year old special needs boy.

Seven year old quadraplegic boy left in tears after being banned from school Christmas party because parents objected to him taking part in Diwali celebrations.

Money given to schools for pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) should be ring-fenced, campaigners say.

Special schools for children with disabilities and special needs cannot be closed by education authorities unless they can demonstrate that they are being replaced with improved provision, the Government said yesterday.

A test will be established so schools for children with special needs are not closed unless better alternatives are available, the government says.

Residential schools for children with special educational needs (SEN) have become so expensive as to be "unsustainable", because of a 15 per cent increase in costs in the past year.

Children with disabilities struggle to protect themselves from bullying because they lack confidence and friends, a study suggests.

A survey of children with special needs and disabilities has discovered they are put off education by unexpected factors around the school.

The parent of a child with special needs claims that teachers repeatedly used excessive force on her daughter.