Government’s special educational needs reforms failing young people and parents, say MPs
A generation of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities is failing to receive the support it deserves, with poorly implemented legislation leaving families facing a nightmare of bureaucracy, buck-passing and confusion...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
National Audit Office report on Fracking for shale gas in England
Progress in establishing a shale gas industry in England has been slower than government planned, according to today’s report by the National Audit Office...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
Radical change needed in approach to UK drugs policy, say MPs
The Health and Social Care Committee’s latest Report today calls for a radical new approach to the country’s current drug policy...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
HMG does not know who is responsible for decommissioning fracking sites - Rebecca Long Bailey responds
Rebecca Long Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Business and Energy Secretary, responding to an NAO report revealing that the government does not know who has ultimate responsibility to pay for the decommissioning of fracking sites, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
LGA responds to Education select committee report on SEND
Responding to the Education Select Committee review of support for children with special educational needs (SEND), Cllr Judith Blake, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
ASCL comment on Education Committee SEND report
Commenting on the report of the House of Commons Education Committee on support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
NEU comments on Education Committee report on SEND
Commenting on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, a report by the House of Commons Education Committee, Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
Greenpeace reaction to the National Audit Office's report looking at the landscape of fracking in England
Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace UK, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
Rayner responds to calls for SEND reforms
Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to the Education Committee’s calls for special educational needs reforms, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
Lib Dems: Pupils and parents are being failed by SEND support crisis
Responding to the publication today (23/10/19) of the Education Select Committee’s report on children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary Layla Moran MP said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01