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SEND and EHCPs in England: In the fast lane to overtake 10 per cent.

26/08/2025

The new British Educational Research Association has shared a new Blog post: SEND and EHCPs in England: In the fast lane to overtake 10 per cent.
 

This gives an overview of reports on SEND and EHCs in England published ten years on fron the Children & Families Act 2014, looking forward to the White Paper expected in Autumn 2025.

You can find the blog post in full here: https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/send-and-education-health-and-care-plans-in-england-in-the-fast-lane-to-overtake-10-per-cent

This offers supplementary evidence and information following the 2024 article: Caution: Mind the English SEND postcode funding gap | BERA

About the author

Dr Alan Marsh has more than 25 years’ experience working as a local authority Chartered Educational Psychologist (EP). He successfully combined his EP career with six years of study for a PhD in formula funding and special educational needs at the Open University. 

He was recently elected as a fellow of the British Psychological Society. He was seconded to the Department for Education to write the guidance document for the National Performance Framework for SEN in England, a prototype to the Local Authority Interactive Tool and the High Needs Local Authority Benchmarking Tool. Since retirement, he has continued to author articles as an independent researcher.

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