Join Special Needs Jungle's Renata Blower, Tania Tirraoro and team, in conversations about current issues and interesting aspects around special educational needs and disabilities. The team will be chatting with a variety of voices from the world of SEND, explaining, exploring and educating on everything you need to know. The programme is also available in vision on YouTube.
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Implications for EHCP and EOTAS legal rights of the Government's SEND proposals. Webinar, SNJ / SOS!SEN 16.7.2
SNJ Co-Director, Dr Sharon Smith leads this webinar on the implications for EHCPs and EOTASof the Government's SEND proposals. Panellists are Eleanor wright, Legal Officer, SOS!SEN, Marsha Martin, CEO, Black SEN Mamas and EOTAS parent, Megan Booth, SOS!SEN EOTAS Adviser and EOTAS parent, Joanna Gibbs, CEO SENsational Tutors online education provider Webinar recorded 16.7.26
Find the article with all the links mentioned and transcript here: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/webinar-recording-implications-legal-rights-ehcps-eotas-governments-send-proposals/
14 May 2026
Will school SEND funding be ringfenced?
Education Minister, Georgia Gould, who has responsibility for the Schools White Paper's SEND reform proposals, speaks to Special Needs Jungle about the Government's plans for SEND. The Minister answered questions sent in by SNJ's audience and those attending the webinar.
She mentioned ringfencing of SEND funding in schools twice--but does she mean what we mean by it? Ms Gould repeatedly stressed people could respond to any aspect of the proposals, and that nothing was set in stone. It sounded like there will ne movement on many of the initial plans as set out in the consultation--but defended the moved to rein in the Tribunal in ways that were not convincing to those attending.
24 Mar 2026
SNJ's Legal Round Table on the SEND Proposals in the Schools White Paper
On 23/3/26, Special Needs Jungle held a webinar focusing on the legal implications of the SEND proposals in the 2026 Schools White Paper. This webinar is just under 1' 30". The webinar features solicitors Hayley Mason Seager, CEO of SEN Legal, Polly Sweeney, Partner at Rook Irwin Sweeney, Eleanor Wright Legal Officer with SEND legal charity SOS!SEN, and Kate Cox, Senior Solicitor with SEND legal charity, IPSEA. The wide-ranging webinar looked at proposals to change EHCPs, creating four "tiers" of support, that would raise the threshold for EHCPs, Education Other Than at School (EOTAS/EOTIS) packages, Schools and school governors, and much more besides. This webinar is freely available, but donations to the volunteer run SNJ are always welcome: http://bit.ly/SNJ-Donatezhttp://bit.ly/SNJ-Donatez (http://bit.ly/SNJ-Donatez)
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