special educational needs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with councillor Christine Townsend on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality

Green councillor and education rights campaigner Christine Townsend on fighting discriminatory school selection practices and the prospect of taking power in Bristol.

Neil Maggs George Colwey Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

Funding reinstated for SEND charity at heart of council social media spying row

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Progress on Bristol’s SEND failings but relationships with parents still troubled, inspectors find

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

Bristol councillors vote for independent inquiry to investigate monitoring of SEND parents

Opposition councillors clashed yet again with the mayor and cabinet member for education Asher Craig over allegations of social media 'spying'.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)
A fountain in front of City Hall in Bristol, a curved building

Reports

Charities distance themselves from council review into ‘spying’ on SEND parents’ social media

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

Council forced to pay out compensation after failing SEND student for months

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Features

‘We don’t want children leaving school illiterate’: how schools need to step up for dyslexic students

Mike Jones was bullied at school in the 1970s because he couldn't spell his name. Almost four decades later, he developed a program that now helps thousands of dyslexic children learn.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Reports

Council in the spotlight amid mounting calls for inquiry into surveillance of SEND parents’ social media

'Explosive' questions likely at scrutiny meeting next week, opposition councillors warn, as inspectors prepare to reassess Bristol’s struggling special education needs and disabilities services.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Investigations

Revealed: Parents taking legal action over mistreatment of son at special needs school

A former worker has also shed light on what happened before St Christopher's closed in 2019 and police investigated child cruelty.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Pupils struggle to adapt to school post-lockdown

Social anxiety among school kids is up and attendance is down as the impact of the lockdowns is still being felt in schools today.

James Rogerson
James Rogerson

Reports

Council still missing targets to tackle SEND crisis, more than two years since damning inspection

Campaigners are criticising Bristol City Council for stalled progress since a damning inspection declared the city’s service ‘not fit for purpose’ in 2019.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Bristol City Council asks government to help with £24m schools deficit

The council's finance director Denise Murray said there were risks of further increases in the deficit.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)
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