Making 2020 the Year of Vision - Join us in presenting a united front for change
22 November 2019
Source: Thomas Pocklington Trust
Special Educational Consortium Feedback for the SEND Review 2019
Read more Special Educational Consortium Feedback for the SEND Review 2019
7 November 2019
Source: Vision UK
Vision UK Children & Young People with a Vision Impairment Committee minutes 2018 27 September 2018
Read more Vision UK Children & Young People with a Vision Impairment Committee minutes 2018
1 November 2019
Source: House of Commons Education Committee
Summary In 2014, Parliament legislated with the intention of transforming the educational experiences of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. The reforms were ambitious: the Children and Families Bill sought to place young people at the heart of the system. However, as we set out in this report, that ambition remains to be realised. Let down
Read more House of Commons Education Committee: Special educational needs and disabilities First Report of Session 2019–20
25 October 2019
Source: Vision UK
Agenda for Vision UK Children & Young People with a Vision Impairment Committee, 7 November 2019
Read more Agenda for Vision UK Children & Young People with a Vision Impairment Committee 2019
24 October 2019
Source: Thomas Pocklington Trust
Overview The Select Committees findings are damning and show what we have long suspected and known, that the system with the right intentions to support children and young people with SEND needs is failing the very people it is meant to help. “This generation is being let down—the reforms have not done enough to join the dots, to bring people
Read more Thomas Pocklington Trust Response to the House of Commons Education Committee Special educational needs and disabilities First Report of Session 2019–20
24 October 2019
Source: VICTA
The one stop information hub for all parents and carers raising a child with a vision Impairment. From assistive technology to leisure activities, education to financial support, the answers to your questions can be found on the portal. Over the years, we have heard parents describe the endless hours they would spend trawling the internet trying to find the information
Read more Introducing the VICTA Parent Portal23 October 2019
Source: BBC News
Parents seeking support for children with special educational needs face unlawful practices, buck passing and a “treacle of bureaucracy”, MPs say. The Commons Education Committee said the government had set councils up to fail by upping parents’ expectations while cutting council budgets overall. Already stretched families were being torn apart, its report said, as they fought for their children’s rights
Read more BBC News: ‘Unlawful practices and buck passing’ over special needs22 October 2019
Source: The Guardian
Thousands of children and young people with vision impairment (VI) are being failed because of a shortage of funds for specialist education services, research by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has found. Less than half (44%) of councils in England have either cut or frozen funding for educational support for VI children, putting specialist provision under significant
Read more The Guardian: RNIB says schools are reducing specialist provision at a time when demand is growing4 October 2019
Improved support for parents and families of newly diagnosed children with vision impairment was unveiled during the British & Irish Paediatric Opthamology & Strabisimus Association (BIPOSA) conference earlier today (4 October 2019). Starting Point, a leaflet that can be given to families at the point of diagnosis, has been redesigned to help signpost parents to appropriate resources and professionals, while
Read more Vision UK launches updated resource for families of children with vision impairment6 September 2019
Source: Council for disabled children
The government has today announced a major new review into support for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The review is designed to improve services for disabled children and young people and their families. The review aims to evaluate the impact of these reforms, and to identify improvements. Too often disabled children and those with
Read more Government Review into Support for Children and Young People with SEND
