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Area SEND

Our review of the area SEND inspection framework

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Through the Big Listen, children, parents, carers and professionals told us that the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is ‘broken’. Families shared heartbreaking stories of their fight to get the right support. Frustrated professionals told us that they …