SEC Consultation Responses

SEC regularly submits responses and position papers to public consultations. Please see a series of recent submissions below:

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)