HeyJaredSend Dad Diaries
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The Scales Start Heavy: Why a New Upper Tribunal Ruling Means Schools Can No Longer Hide Behind Anonymity (opens the original)
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The quiet assumption that just got testedAn assumption’s sat underneath SEND disputes for years, rarely spoken aloud, and it goes like this: whatever happens behind the closed doors of the First-tier Tribunal stays behind them.Families know it. Schools know it. Local authorities know it. The hearing is private by default. The child is protected by a standard reporting restriction from the day a claim is registered. Decisions are not published by the tribunal. A school can be found to have unlawf
The Biggest Myth in SEND: “You Can’t Take on a School” (opens the original)
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You are not powerlessThis article deals with the law in England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different routes and different tribunals.For years, there has been a widespread belief in the SEND community that challenging a school legally is something only a tiny minority of families can do.That you need money. That you need lawyers. That you need specialist knowledge. That schools are simply too powerful to take on.You hear it all the time.“They’ve got solicitors.”“They’ve got govern
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