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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Services in England for children with special needs to be ‘transformed’

hands of teacher and special needs child learning to write
Many people working with children with special needs were cautious about whether the new plan offered enough. Photograph: Don Tonge/Alamy

Services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in England are to be “transformed”, with the introduction of new national standards and thousands more specialist school places, ministers have announced.

The long-awaited changes are being introduced to end the postcode lottery that families currently face and ensure that children and young people with Send get “high-quality, early support” wherever they live, the government says.

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