SEND reform national conversation

Overview

This survey has now closed.

What happens next

We will be launching a formal consultation on aspects of our SEND reform plans later in 2026, alongside publication of the Schools White Paper.

Closed 14 Jan 2026

Opened 2 Dec 2025

Contact

DfE Gen enquiries line: 0370 0002288

Audiences

  • All

Interests

  • Academies
  • Academy sponsorship
  • Accommodation (Looked after children)
  • Accountability
  • Admissions
  • Adoption
  • Adult social care
  • Adult social work
  • Advocacy (Looked after children)
  • All
  • Alternative provision
  • Apprenticeships
  • Attendance and absence
  • Behaviour and discipline
  • Capital funding
  • Care leavers and former looked-after children
  • Careers guidance
  • Community learning
  • Converting to an academy
  • Disabled children
  • Early learning and childcare
  • Early years foundation stage
  • Education
  • Equality
  • Establishing maintained schools
  • Film Industry and skills
  • Financial management
  • Financial support (Looked after children)
  • Fostering
  • Free Schools, studio schools and University technical colleges
  • Friends and family care
  • GCE AS and A level subject content
  • GCSE subject content
  • Governance
  • HE
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Health and wellbeing (Looked after children)
  • Intervention
  • Keeping children safe in education and other settings
  • Key stage 1
  • Key stage 2
  • Lifelong learning
  • National Curriculum
  • Participation of young people in education, employment and training
  • Pay, conditions and pensions
  • Performance tables
  • Planning
  • Post 16 Qualifications
  • Post-16 funding
  • Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation
  • Primary assessment
  • Procurement for schools
  • Programmes and initiatives (Looked after children)
  • Pupil data
  • Pupil place planning
  • Raising the participation age
  • Recruitment
  • Safeguarding disabled children
  • School and academy funding
  • School building estates
  • School funding reform
  • SEND code of practice
  • Setting up an academy or free school
  • Sex and relationships education
  • Short break care
  • Social care standards and guidance
  • Social workers' standards
  • Special guardianship
  • Statutory policies and guidance
  • Sufficiency
  • Support in education
  • Teacher assessment
  • Teachers' standards
  • Teaching and learning (SEND)
  • Training and development
  • Travel to school and colleges
  • Work based training