Over the past three years, we have worked with four local areas to pilot new approaches to understanding and addressing “vulnerability”, as part of the LocalEd 2025 programme. At the end of January 2025, we held a national conference to celebrate and share the learning from this work, and the power of what we have come to call the “granular approach”.
Read MoreIn 2018, we described that the SEND system in England had reached a "tipping point”. It is now at breaking point. The “SEND system” in England is broken. There is broad consensus that the system is in need of urgent reform, but less agreement on the root causes of the current crisis and what can be done to address them. In our new report, we set out the scale of the challenge, our analysis of the root causes, and a set of eight proposals for whole-system reform.
Read MoreChildcare in England is becoming a publicly-controlled market. Under the new expansion of funded places, local authorities will be responsible for distributing vastly more funds to more providers, supporting more parents to take up the offer, and ensuring there are more of the right places. How well placed are they to perform this role and, if they are, how do they need to change to deliver the best possible services for families? We tested these questions out with some local authorities and providers, with some interesting results …
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