SEC regularly submits responses and position papers to public consultations. Please see a series of recent submissions below:
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)
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)
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School attendance: improving consistency of support (Feb 2022)
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Ofsted's role in the online education accreditation scheme (Jan 2022)
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Education challenges facing children and young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds (Jan 2022)
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Future of post-16 qualifications (Jan 2022)
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)
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)