Complete the picture: Remove the eight-week time limit on apprenticeship English and maths flexibilities feweek.co.uk/complete-the-p…

Do you want to learn more about how the high needs funding system works for FE providers? Our training is aimed at anyone who would benefit from a greater understanding, from college leaders to LA officers.

Date 📅 23 April

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We welcome the appointment of Luke Hall MP and look forward to introducing him to the wonderful world of specialist FE. We hope he will work closely with David Johnston OBE MP to align SEND and FE policy to benefit our learners & the colleges who support them.

Some flexibility on these new requirements is desperately needed for students with SEND. We hope to work with Department for Education to allow for this flexibility

The new condition of funding requirements are not just difficult to implement for specialist colleges, they fly in the face of effective pedagogy for learners with SEND.

Sorry to hear this news Robert Halfon MP ➡️Working Hard for Harlow⬅️ - a minister with a strong commitment to all FE learners. As Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon led an excellent review into SEND and it's a shame many of those recommendations were not implemented

Great question from Robin Walker to the PM at Liaison Committee just now asking why the govt doesn't focus on fundamental causes of LA debt rather than running programmes like Safety Valve.

Congratulations to everyone at CCL - brilliant news! High expectations, high aspirations, exceptional leadership, ambitious curriculum, skilled staff - specialist FE at its best

SNJ’s Matt Keer researched who was asking for EHC Needs Assessments the FOI data finds it’s mostly NOT parents asking or getting them first time … specialneedsjungle.com/ehc-needs-asse…

I’m 100% behind this but only if colleges are included, making a tertiary education system that can truly meet 100% of the needs of the population, all employers, jobs at all levels, in all places @[email protected] Jim Dickinson Smita Jamdar 💙 🇺🇦 @[email protected]

'There is poor coordination and policy fragmentation for SEND in FE. The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing'

🫥 Natspec CEO, Clare Howard
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Our CEO, Clare Howard , challenges government to ‘address the poor coordination and policy fragmentation for SEND in FE’.

Congratulations to @natspec member St Piers School and College - Outstanding in all areas! 🥂👏

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Quality Times Issue Ten is out now!

Quality Times is our quality improvement focussed publication. Available to members, it features a diverse set of articles which provide a fascinating insight into colleges' quality improvement journeys.

Read now! natspec.org.uk/quality-times-…

Good news govt is recognising the issues raised by David Hughes CBE Association of Colleges (AoC)

Ofsted must understand and appreciate the role of colleges | AoC ow.ly/KjlG30sAC1C

The Big Listen opens today - important for all Natspec providers to submit views to Ofsted gov.uk/government/con…

Have your say: Ofsted has today published the details of it's Big Listen consultation. You can find out more information here: ow.ly/bGZo50QOtXC

It’s good to join this important conference at Portland College and hear from excellent line up of speakers, discussing importance of employment for disabled people and veterans Care after Combat HQ

#Budget24 yet again fails to remember that disabled children and those with #SEND become adults. It's great there is some money to build new schools, but then what? Nothing to address the funding black hole. Nothing to address further education or to support people into adulthood