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Department for Education should establish national standards for SEND provision, MPs say
MPs highlight a 80% rise in Education, Health and Care Plans over five years amid calls for sustained funding and legal protections to address the broken SEND system.
- On September 15, MPs debated a petition signed by over 122,000 people urging the government to protect and improve SEND support in England.
- This debate followed widespread concerns about an underfunded, overburdened SEND system with delayed support and fears that legal rights might be removed.
- The Education Select Committee recommended establishing national minimum standards, mandatory SEND training for all mainstream staff, increasing funding, and retaining EHCPs as accountability safeguards.
- Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is preparing a White Paper this autumn to overhaul the crisis-hit SEND system, emphasizing early intervention, inclusivity, and stronger accountability.
- Reforms aim to reduce families' burdens fighting for support, ensure legal protections remain, and promote a fully resourced, sustainable system serving all SEND children effectively.
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DfE should establish national standards for Send provision, MPs say
Reducing EHCP entitlement would be ‘the wrong place for the Government to start reforming’ the Send system, the Education Committee chairwoman said. The Department for Education (DfE) should establish national standards for baseline special educational needs and disabilities (Send) provision in education, MPs have said. The Commons Education Select Committee has said the DfE should publish statutory requirements setting out minimum resources, ex…
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