Around 440 families have now received new education, health and care plans as part of the trial, which includes making sure that support for
children with special educational needs does not simply stop when they turn 18.
A key point raised in the paper is that, according to research, «Bullying remains the single biggest concern raised
by children with special educational needs and disabilities» and that bullying of children and young people with SEN is more prevalent than that of children and young people in general.
And in the Commons, Schools Minister Nick Gibb confirmed that amendments to the bill had given
children with special educational needs greater rights to admission to academies than existed in previous academies legislation, and that new requirements for funding for low - incidence special needs had been added.
The report, published today, claims widespread weaknesses exist in the quality of provision for
children with special educational needs in England, with many pupils put into the category because of poor teaching.
An academy trust has been accused of segregating disabled pupils after announcing that it would
bus children with special educational needs and disabilities from a well - performing school to a worse school because of limited resources.
Kate Green, the Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston and shadow minister for women and equalities, has written to the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, to ask what guidance the Department for Education gives academies about
coeducating children with special educational needs and non-disabled children.
Other schools were encouraging pupils to stay away, or urging parents to educate them at home or find another school, the report says, and a number were sending
home children with special educational needs if their carer or teaching assistant was unavailable.
Identifying the appropriate educational setting for individual children with special educational needs
The highest honours went to Mary Warnock, former mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, who has been made a companion of honour for services to charity and the education
of children with special educational needs and Helen Fraser, chief executive, the Girls» Day School Trust (GDST), for services to education.
Hundreds of school support staff are to get degree - level and specialist training in
helping children with special educational needs and / or disabilities (SEND), under a new # 500,000 programme set out today by Children's Minister Sarah Teather.