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The stated aim of the sector seeing AP settings as merely a staging post is welcome but the government could have gone further with its plans, says the CEO of a MAT formed of special schools and AP schools

Your round-up of 91¶¶Òõ’ essential news and analysis from the past week includes details of the government’s long-awaited plan to reform SEND support, reaction to regional teacher strikes and a warning about the value of Ofsted inspections

Ministers set out plans for SEND reform but many key proposals will not start to be rolled out until 2025

The department will also announce new special school places as part of its long-awaited response to the SEND review today

Survey finds fewer pupils are being allocated preferred school places in some areas

The many disabled school leavers left without essential coordinated support plans represents a ‘huge, huge failure’, parliamentary committee hears

Commons Education Select Committee chair and ex-schools minister has written to Gillian Keegan over Rishi Sunak’s ‘maths to 18’ plan

Commons Education Select Committee chair, Robin Walker, reflects on early expert evidence for the government’s nascent plan for every pupil to study maths to 18 and explains why many questions need to be answered

Education secretary says long-awaited plan to reform the SEND system, which was originally due to be set out last year, will be published in days

Your round-up of 91¶¶Òõ’ essential news and analysis from the past week includes the government’s recommendation for teacher pay next year, an attempt to halt next week’s strikes and a new teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates

Two-thirds of schools have seen an increase in pupils arriving hungry according to research from last term

An MP on the Commons Education Select Committee explains why he’s calling on the government to scrap VAT on school uniform in the forthcoming Budget