Have you heard of Warhammer? I tell everyone it’s a bit like Dungeons and Dragons. I noticed several independent schools offer it as a club, normally down in the cellar at break time. These schools tend to be those that take pupils with additional needs and look for ways to provide structure during break times by offering clubs. The children who maybe don’t cope so well in ‘unstructured times’ can go to a club instead. I even found one school where you could collect chic

Supporting parents when their young people become school refusers. EHCP Schools helps families to secure EHCP and specialist education.

Something I hear all the time. The key is to be proactive during the EHC Needs Assessment.

26th March 2025, Slough Council were fined £11,750 in compensation for failing to deliver suitable education provision for a boy with...

If you disagree with a decision your Local Authority has made regarding your child, you can make an Appeal to the Special Education Needs...

Reading the news last week ‘Mental health: One in four young woman struggling’ (BBC News, 22 Nov 2018) about young woman struggling with...

If you’re anything like me, you’ll be thinking surely my child doesn’t need a specialist school? Yes, he has high functioning autism...

I bumped into an old friend whilst I was dog walking last week. She shared with me the story of how her teenage daughter was suffering...

Have you heard of Warhammer? I tell everyone it’s a bit like Dungeons and Dragons. I noticed several independent schools offer it as a...

I remember as a child lying on the dusty mat in the gymnasium at my girl's school in Sussex. We would lie there, in silence, with our...

First and foremost, does your child’s current school meet their needs? If not, why not? Try to document what is working well for your...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-measures-to-support-children-with-send A range of new measures are being launched to support...

On the 19th April I am looking forward to attending the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Inclusion Summit for young people with...

On a snowy cold Saturday morning in March I attended Yvonne Newbold's and Mark Brown's workshop in Waterloo on overcoming the challenge...

As a newbie to the term 'pathological demand avoidance' (PDA) which my son was recently diagnosed with, I thought it prudent to attend...

Relocating back to the UK and starting to navigate the EHC application process, I enlisted the help of and EHCP Consultant, an expert in...