The Latest Breaking News from Send

Letters: The national curriculum isn’t working, say former teachers Pauline Silcock and Celia Roberts. Plus a letter from Coram CEO Dr Carol Homden

With the yawning gap between available funding and rising demand, parents are right to fear the government’s reaction, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Staff and parents share their experience as number of pupils with special educational needs spirals

Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate families

As council cuts costs due to effective bankruptcy, parents face an exhausting battle to get support for their children

No quick fix for a system that is failing children and parents and pushing councils into insolvency

Chair of committee of MPs, Helen Hayes, says current Send ‘deep crisis’ is neither sustainable nor acceptable

Efforts to support children with special educational needs start early at the west London borough, and as youngsters move on, there are new facilities and trained teaching assistants at mainstream schools

Education minister Catherine McKinnell said: ‘We desperately need to reform the system.’

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says extra funding for mainstream schools will help break down barriers

Letters: Dr Helen Care says we have to start looking at the wider picture and ask what schools are for, Helen Kinsey says it is a false economy not to be supporting the most vulnerable. Plus a letter from Andrew Seber