CURRENT. PROPOSED. CONSULTATION. WHAT TO DO NOW.
SEND reform updates
You should not have to guess whether a headline about SEND reform changes your child’s rights today. Every update here is labelled with where it stands.
A change that has been announced is not a change that is in force, and the difference decides whether you act on it. Every update on this page carries its status, its source and the date it was last checked — so a proposal can never be read as settled law, and nothing arrives here without saying where it stands.
How every update is labelled
The label sits on the update itself, so its standing is clear before you read a word of it.
- Current law
- In force now. This is what applies to your child today.
- Proposed
- Announced or drafted, but not in force. It may change, it may never happen, and it does not apply yet.
- In consultation
- Open for views before any decision. Nothing is settled while a consultation is running.
- Superseded
- Replaced by something newer. Kept for reference, and marked so it is not mistaken for current law.
What to do while reform is being argued about
- Keep to the deadlines that apply nowA deadline under the current system is a real deadline, whatever is being proposed. Missing one because a change might arrive costs you the route you already had.
- Keep building the recordReports, letters, dates, and what has actually been delivered against what was agreed, are worth the same under any system — and they are much harder to reconstruct later.
- Do not drop a route because reform may happenAppeals, complaints and reviews that are open now run under the rules that exist now. Reform does not pause them, and abandoning one rarely gets it back.
- Every update shows when it was checkedWhen a status changes, this page changes visibly, and each entry carries the date somebody last confirmed it was still true.
What applies to you right now
The free check works from the rules that are in force today, and ends with one next step you can take under them.