Back in February, the Government published the Schools White Paper, “Every child achieving and thriving”. Together with this, the Department for Education published a SEND Reform consultation that closes on the 18th of May 2026.
We are in the process of formulating our forum response to the consultation and we’d love to hear your views and experiences to help us compose the best and most representative response on behalf of Manchester’s families.
Please answer this survey to share your feedback with us. It would take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
If you have more than one child with SEND and your experience varies for each child, please complete separate surveys for each of them. If your experiences of challenges and support are the same for the children then feel free to put them together in one response.
To thank you for your time and effort, we will be raffling off five £30 shopping vouchers to respondents. Please submit your name and contact info at the end of this survey to be entered into the prize draw.
We will close this survey at 11:59pm on the 13th of May to allow us time to process and analyse responses, and finalise our response to the government consultation.
Other Ways to Get Involved
Please join our joint event with Manchester’s SENDIASS (6 May, 11am-1pm) if you wish to share your views in person. [Currently fully booked.]
The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) is hosting a number of SEND Engagement Events across the country, with the North West one being held in Liverpool on the 12th of May. Visit the CDC’s Eventbrite page for more details.
Fellow parent groups Our Space and SEND Together are also hosting their own consultation event (9 May, 2-4pm). Please feel free to attend that alternatively or additionally.
The national children’s charity, Dingley’s Promise, is also hosting a number of online engagement events for parents and carers of children with SEND under 8 years of age.
If you can’t attend any of the above events, you can still have your say through the national consultation directly: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/send-reform-putting-children-and-young-people-first
In fact, we encourage everyone to individually respond to the consultation even if you have attended a SEND Reform engagement event before.
We will share more opportunities to provide feedback on the Schools White Paper and/or SEND Reform whenever we can. Please follow us on social media for future announcements.
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