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APPG for SEND Report Spring 2021.Pdf Forgotten. Left behind. Overlooked. The experiences of young people with SEND and their educational transitions during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 Report Spring 2021 This is not an official publication of the House of Commons or the House of Lords. It has not been approved by either House or its committees. All‑Party Parliamentary Groups are informal groups of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues. The views expressed in this report are those of the group. 2 | Forgotten. Left-behind. Overlooked. Foreword This is the first report of the APPG for SEND. When we formed as a group in early March 2020, we had no idea of the turmoil that we all would face just a few short weeks later as the Covid-19 pandemic hit and the country went into lockdown. The group formed with the aim of supporting special schools and SEND provision in mainstream school and college settings. This past year has seen young people with SEND, their families and their educational settings needing support and a platform more As an APPG we don’t have the power to than ever, as the Covid-19 pandemic has make changes to policy or to systems held a magnifying glass to the existing but, as MPs, we do have influence. This problems in the SEND system. This report aims to further that influence and report serves to highlight their stories; to crystalise suggestions of how things be a platform for their voice. can be improved. And they must be improved. When we began thinking about the inquiry, the members of the APPG We thank all the organisations who were particularly keen to focus on submitted evidence to this inquiry, and how the transitions that young people we are in the privileged position to be with SEND face had been impacted by able to bring together evidence and the significant changes in education statistics from the important research provision since March 2020. they have conducted over the past year. Moving between education settings, for But particular thanks go to the parents either a change of phase or for enhanced and young people themselves, who or different provision, is difficult for all submitted written evidence but also children, but how has this been impacted spoke at virtual oral evidence sessions by the pandemic and what has been the in front of Members of Parliament and specific experience for the children and hundreds watching online across the young people with additional needs? country. While transitions were the focus of the We are grateful to each of you for inquiry, it is clear that the needs and sharing your experience. We hope this experiences of young people and their report and our representations can families are wide-ranging, emotional contribute to improving that experience and often desperate. Many of the during the ongoing pandemic and submissions we received were raw and beyond. anxious – they were reaching out to seek help for their child in a system that has Olivia Blake MP long needed change. Chair of the APPG for SEND APPG for SEND Report Spring 2021 | 3 It is very sad to see that the lives and care “ of our young people is regarded as so unimportant that the services we rely on for support... were deemed non‑essential “ and closed down for six months. 4 2 | APPG for SEND Report Spring 2021 Contents Foreword ........................................................................................... 3 Introduction ..................................................................................... 6 Executive summary ...................................................................... 8 Key recommendations ................................................................ 9 Overview of the written and oral responses..................... 11 Hearing their voice: young people and parents in their own words ...................................................................................... 32 Summary of recommendations ............................................. 39 Appendices ....................................................................................... 51 Acknowledgments ....................................................................... 54 APPG for SEND Report Spring 2021 | 5 Introduction Members of the APPG for SEND combination of all of these • To make recommendations to Government on its role in mitigating Olivia Blake MP Labour (Chair) and remedying the impact that Covid-19 has had upon children and Conservative Sally-Ann Hart MP young people with SEND during (Vice Chair) transition Rob Butler MP Conservative The inquiry James Daly MP Conservative The inquiry was launched at a meeting Marsha de Cordova MP Labour of the APPG for SEND on 15 July 2020. From there, it was publicised through the Jack Dromey MP Labour APPG’s website, the APPG’s mailing list and on Twitter. Liberal Tim Farron MP Democrats There was an open invitation to submit written evidence and the terms of Emma Hardy MP Labour reference for the inquiry were publicly available on the APPG’s website. At all Julian Sturdy MP Conservative stages it was emphasised that hearing directly from parents and young people James Sunderland MP Conservative was of particular importance. An invitation to register interest to Objectives of the inquiry submit evidence at the oral evidence sessions was issued on 7 September and • To further build the evidence base there were 49 offers received. of the impact that Covid-19 has had upon young people’s mental health In each oral evidence session, the group and wellbeing during transition sought to hear from at least one young • To further build the evidence base person and one parent as they felt it of the impact that Covid-19 has had was important to hear directly of their upon learning outcomes during experiences. To facilitate the evidence transition of young people, the group contacted • To examine the impact that Covid-19 national organisations representing and has had upon children and young supporting young people with special people with SEND during transition, needs and disabilities. We are thankful to specifically in relation to the social these organisations for facilitating and and emotional wellbeing within the supporting the young people to give oral community. evidence. • To establish where the capacity and responsibility to address the impact This is primarily qualitative research, of Covid-19 lies, whether this be with with written and oral submissions to tell the Government, the sector, parents a story. We have collated quantitative and young people themselves or a research that was submitted. 6 | Forgotten. Left-behind. Overlooked. Key dates for the inquiry Date Event Inquiry launched at meeting of the APPG for SEND and written evidence 15 July 2020 invited. Terms of reference for the inquiry available on the APPG’s website. Invitation to submit oral evidence and 7 September 2020 confirmation of the dates for 4 APPG meetings with oral evidence sessions. First oral evidence session with a focus 23 September 2020 on communication and interaction. Second oral evidence session with a 14 October 2020 focus on cognition and learning. Third oral evidence session with a focus 11 November 2020 on social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Deadline for submission of written 15 November 2020 evidence Fourth oral evidence session with a 2 December 2020 focus on sensory and/or physical needs. APPG for SEND Report Spring 2021 | 7 Executive summary Contributors to this inquiry have used Delays in the process of assessing for powerful words to describe how young and implementing Educational and people with SEND and their families Health Care (EHC) Plans impacted have felt during the Covid-19 pandemic: on the transitions of young people forgotten, left-behind and overlooked. with SEND. This meant they started in a new setting without the provision The Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the they required or, in some cases, not problems and issues that were already attending school. Not being able to visit present in the SEND system. new settings increased the anxiety of transitions for young people with SEND. The manner and speed in which the lockdown and closure of school Changes to the school set-up and happened had a negative impact on staffing provision has caused anxiety and children and young people with SEND disruption which has been felt acutely by and their families. Many were left without children with SEND. support. Specialist resources and support that are Funding for SEND provision has been of available for young people with SEND long-term concern with local authorities, in school settings cannot be replicated school settings and families reporting in the home environment, which has an deficits in the high-needs budget. impact on their ability to learn. The impact on schools of Covid-19 related costs and losses of income has Therapists and technicians who support exacerbated this crisis. the provision for young people with SEND have in many cases not been The government guidance for special allowed on to school sites due to Covid schools and alternative provision was restrictions. frequently published later than guidance for mainstream schools. This led settings There are some positive experiences and young people with SEND to be seen from the impact of the pandemic on as, and feel like, an “afterthought”. learning which emphasises how every child has unique needs. However, they The Coronavirus Act and the reduction are positive because they mitigate in requirements of local authorities and existing issues and problems. schools to make ‘reasonable endeavours’
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