SEND reform national conversation
Overview
The Schools White Paper will be published in 2026 and will set out our proposed reforms to the SEND system.
Why are we engaging?
We want to have an open conversation on points and ideas organisations have raised to help inform how we shape the policy in the White Paper. This is not a formal consultation. A public consultation on some aspects of our SEND plans will be launched alongside publication of the Schools White Paper.
To help process and analyse responses efficiently, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to identify themes, trends, and patterns in the comments received. All AI generated outputs will be reviewed and validated by experienced analysts to ensure accuracy and context. AI will not make decisions or recommendations. Its role is purely to support human-led analysis.
All questions are optional. Whilst we cannot respond to individuals, we will review all responses carefully.
Share your views with us
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
Share
Share on Twitter Share on Facebook