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and delivery. Targets have been set and missed; waiting lists have grown longer,
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Growing apart?
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Department for Education announces plans for seven new special free schools
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Department for Education consults on register of children not in school
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Department for Education dismisses claims of EHCP reduction target
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Department for Education facing judicial review challenge over PHSE guidance
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Department for Education facing judicial review over content of SEND green paper consultation
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Department for Education facing judicial review over plans for educational resources body
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Department for Education hit with pre-action protocol letter over placing of unaccompanied asylum seeking children in hotels
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Department for Education hits North West council with improvement notice over SEND services
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Department for Education issues new statutory guidance on school attendance
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Department for Education launches consultation on updated advice for safeguarding practitioners amid concerns over “legal impediments” to information sharing
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Department for Education launches first wave of ‘Families First for Children’ pilot
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Department for Education relaxes statutory timescales in four sets of regulations relating to SEN system
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Department for Education selects four firms for £16m legal services panel
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Department for Education tells court nothing can be done where lack of secure placement for vulnerable and damaged 13 year old
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Department for Education to ban placing of vulnerable under 16s in unregulated accommodation from September 2021
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Department for Education to consult on revising National Standards for Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services
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Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
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Department for Health and Social Care sets out position on ordinary residence determinations pending legal challenge
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Department for Health and Social Care will continue stay on ordinary residence disputes pending final decision from Supreme Court
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Department for Health and Social Care Winter Guidance: issues for local authorities
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