SEND Review Response delayed

In another delay to the reforms to the SEND system, the new ministerial team appear to have removed timelines for the response. The consultation, which finished back in July 2022, has been sitting with the Government and they had planned to publish a ‘national SEND delivery plan’ by the end of the calendar year, as stated by the former children’s minister Kelly Tolhurst in September. It appears that the plan will be another casualty of the disruption caused by the reshuffling of government. The SEND review was already released under much controversy as it was delayed three times before its publication in March this year. We eagerly await an update from the Government with a revised timeline.