SEC regularly submits responses and position papers to public consultations. Please see a series of recent submissions below:
2025
- SEC Response to DfE Guidance on the Use of Reasonable Force and Other Restrictive Interventions in Schools Consultation (April 2025)
- SEC Response to Ofsted's Consultation: Improving the way Ofsted inspects education (April 2025)
- SEC Response to DfE's Schools Accountability Reform Questions (April 2025)
- SEC response to the Education Select Committee's call for evidence on Solving the SEND Crisis
- SEC Response to the Law Commission’s Consultation on Disabled Children’s Social Care (Jan 25)
2024
- SEC response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review Call for Evidence (November 2024)
- SEC response to the Public Accounts Committee call for evidence on support for children and young people with SEN (November 2024)
- Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision (July 2024)
- Education Select Committee Inquiry on Children's Social Care - Call for Evidence (Jan 2024)
- Consultation on Elective Home Education Guidance Review (Jan 2024)
- Consultation on National Standards for Personal, Social and Employability Qualifications (May 2024)
- Ofsted Big Listen (May 2024)
2023
- The Disability Unit’s consultation On a Disability Action Plan 23-24 (Oct 2023)
- DfE’s Consultation on Early Years Foundation Stage (July 2023)
- Improving support for Children missing in education (July 2023)
- DfE’s Call for evidence: Use of reasonable force, restrain and restrictive practices (May 2023)
- DfE’s call for evidence on the ITT core content framework and early career framework (April 2023)
- The Education Select Committee’s call for evidence on persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils (Feb 2023)
2022
- Ofsted and CQC consultation on ‘A new approach to area SEND inspections’ (Sep 2022)
- DfE National Funding Formula (Sep 2022)
- SEC Response to the SEND Review Green Paper (July 2022)
- The consultation response of the Special Educational Consortium on: Review of post-16 qualifications at level 2 and below (April 2022)
- The response of the Special Educational Consortium to the call for evidence: Is the Children and Families Act 2014 fit for purpose? (April 2022)
- School attendance: improving consistency of support (Feb 2022)
- Consultation on Revised Behaviour in Schools Guidance and Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Guidance (Feb 2022)
- Designing and developing accessible assessments (Jan 2022)
- Ofsted's role in the online education accreditation scheme (Jan 2022)
- Education challenges facing children and young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds (Jan 2022)
- Future of post-16 qualifications (Jan 2022)
2021
- Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded
- SEC’s response to the Dispute Resolution in England and Wales: Call for Evidence (October 2021)
- SEC’s submission to the Treasury for the Comprehensive Spending Review (September 2021)
- Fair school funding for all: completing our reforms to the National Funding Formula (September 2021)
- SEC’s consultation response on NICE draft guidelines for Disabled children and young people up to 25 with severe complex needs: integrated service delivery and organisation across health, social care and education (September 2021)
- The Home Office consultation on the Domestic abuse act draft statutory guidance (September 2021)
- DfE’s call for evidence on Behaviour management strategies, in-school units and managed moves (August 2021)
- DfE’s consultation on the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) market review: recommendations (August 2021)
- Changes to the school suspension and expulsion process due to Coronavirus: Feedback from the Special Educational Consortium (March 2021)
- DfE and Ofqual consultation on how GCSE, AS and A level grades should be awarded in summer 2021: A response from the Special Educational Consortium (January)
- Consultation on Validation of Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) Programmes, 2021: A response from the Special Educational Consortium (January)
- DfE: Review of national funding formula for allocations of high needs funding to local authorities: changes for 2022-23 (March 2021)
2020
- Written response to Education Select Committee 2020 Inquiry into Home Education
- CDC and SEC response to the 2020-21 Comprehensive Spending Review Call for Evidence
- SEC response to DfE consultation on the proposed School Admissions Code
- SEC response to DfE consultation on proposals for the framework to inspect the quality of teacher education from September 2020 (April 2020)
- SEC response to DfE consultation on the removal of the ‘outstanding’ exemption (February 2020)
- SEC response to consultation on EYFS reforms (January 2020)
2019
- SEC response to DfE consultation on Changes to the School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2013 (December 2019)
- SEC response to DfE consultation on Home to school travel and transport: statutory guidance (October 2019)
- SEC response to DFE's consultation on guidance on the use of restraint and restrictive intervention in mainstream settings and alternative provision (October 2019)
- SEC response to DfE's call for evidence on funding for special educational needs and disabilities and those who need alternative provision (July 2019)
- SEC response to DfE's call for evidence on Character and Resilience (July 2019)
- SEC response to the DfE Children not in school: proposed legislation Government consultation (June 2019)
- SEC response to DfE call for evidence on post 16 qualifications at level 3 and below (June 2019)
- SEC response to Autism Strategy call for evidence (May 2019)
- SEC response to Ofsted Education inspection framework 2019 consultation (April 2019)
- Consultation on the National Audit Office Value for Money Study: Support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): A response from the Special Educational Consortium (March 2019)
- Response to DfE and ESFA consultation on Provider funding for the delivery of T levels: Written evidence submitted by the Special Educational Consortium (February 2019)