by admin6989 | 2 Sep, 2021 | Disability, Employment Law, SEN
Q. Is the way a remote hearing conducted unfair if it fails to take account of the effects of a person’s impairments? A. Possibly, according to Upper Tribunal Judge Ward in TC and BW v LB Islington [2021] UKUT 196 (AAC) The appellants, TC and BW, are the parents of B....
by admin6989 | 10 Apr, 2021 | Disability, Employment Law, SEN
When an employer is making reasonable adjustments for a disabled person, do they need to consider modifications to physical features and providing auxiliary aids as well as adjusting practices and procedures? Of course is the answer, as was recently confirmed in Mr...
by admin6989 | 25 Sep, 2020 | SEN
Given what parents and others have had to deal with during the pandemic, many people may have missed the Judgement in AD & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Hackney [2020] EWCA Civ 518. This was an appeal of a decision of a judicial review in...
by admin6989 | 1 May, 2020 | SEN
In accordance with the rights available to the Secretary of State for Education contained in the Coronavirus Act 2020, notices were issued on the 30th April 2020 which “temporarily… give local authorities, health commissioning bodies , education settings and other...
by admin6989 | 3 Apr, 2020 | Disability, SEN
Do different learning difficulties correspond to specific regions of the brain? No, according to a team of scientists at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Nearly a third of children and young people have a learning difficulty which...
by admin6989 | 18 Jan, 2020 | SEN
Q. Are the views of parents and young people relevant when deciding what should appear in an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCp)? A. Yes! This was emphasised, yet again, in the recent case of NE and DE v Southampton City Council (SEN) [2019] . Granted this is also...
