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16 May 2026

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Ruth Lucas

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Councils breach funding rules (again) due to SEND deficits

Schools in Kent could be thousands worse-off as its council goes below minimum funding for fourth year in a row

Ruth Lucas

1d | School funding
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‘Education for all’: SEND reform bill announced

King's Speech outlines 'generational reforms' to the SEND system

Ruth Lucas

2d | Inclusion
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Internal exclusions may not lead to fewer suspensions, early research suggests

Education Policy Institute analysis finds 'tentative correlations' in use of internal and external suspensions

Ruth Lucas

2d | Behaviour
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Schools will not be added as safeguarding ‘fourth partner’

The decision is a 'missed opportunity', says children’s commissioner

Ruth Lucas

1w | Safeguarding
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‘Postcode lottery’ for absence fines remains despite standardisation

Education Policy Institute research finds rates of fines being issued are 'geographically unequal'

Ruth Lucas

2w
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Occupational therapists warn they can’t give children required support

Polling comes as the government plans to launch its 'experts at hand' service as part of SEND reforms

Ruth Lucas

2w | Inclusion
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Ministers mull future of £380m SEND budgets transfer policy

Some councils say transfers are necessary, but heads want the policy scrapped and decisions reversed

Ruth Lucas

3w | Inclusion
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Will local government reorganisation improve SEND?

The government says yes, but others say it will split services and make new councils bankrupt from the get-go

Ruth Lucas

3w | Inclusion
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Bristol school’s decision to postpone MP visit based on ‘safeguarding concerns’, review finds

Joan McVittie's review into decision making at Bristol Brunel Academy finds no evidence of antisemitism

Ruth Lucas

3w | Schools
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Education questions: Ministers quizzed on school food standards and falling rolls

Bridget Phillipson and her ministers grilled in the Commons

Ruth Lucas

3w | Politics