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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to undertake a major review of the Special Educational Needs policy as recommended by the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee and make provision for a system of special educational needs that is fit for purpose. More details

Submitted by Tom Husband and Adriana Forte – Deadline to sign up by: 24 July 2007 – Signatures: 1,394

More details from petition creator

In the words of the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee: “It is the view of this Committee that the original Warnock framework has run its course. With Ofsted identifying a “considerable inequality of provision”—both in terms of quality and access to a broad range of suitable provision—the SEN system is demonstrably no longer fit for purpose and there is a need for the Government to develop a new system that puts the needs of the child at the centre of provision.”

You can read the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee report on Special Educational Needs at the parliament publications website.

The Government’s Response is available to read on the teachernet website.

A debate on the Committee's report was held in Westminster Hall on Thursday 26 October - also available to read on the Parliament publications website.

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  • faaiza dar
  • SHIRLEY INGLIS
  • Jane Portman
  • M Schofield
  • Robert Wildsmith
  • Ravish Shah
  • LYNN BIDDLE
  • Barry Alan Jones
  • celia fulford
  • Tish Cracknell
  • cherr oliver
  • Claire Dawes
  • O.Garcha
  • Sarah Harris
  • gareth parry
  • Tracy Marchant
  • David Miller
  • Tracey Cousins
  • david hill
  • lisa gathercole
  • Paul Hetherington
  • Gillian McAlister-Mischook
  • karen Hosking
  • Tokuko Hashimoto
  • Katie Suckling
  • Janet E Cross
  • Kelly Quinn
  • Chrissie Davies
  • KEITH HETHERINGTON
  • sarah baillie
  • Lisa Thorne
  • Paula Bell
  • Dee Caunt
  • samantha silver
  • Richard Anthony
  • gary hard
  • susan downes
  • Penny Anthony
  • Gilli Williams
  • Stelios Angelides
  • DARREN HELLENS
  • Sarah Mitchell
  • martina gomez
  • Sarah Bellringer
  • carol finch
  • Charles Mitchell
  • Lindsay Burnip
  • Jo Bagby
  • Guy Plenderleith
  • Felix Hearn
  • Martina Howley
  • Susan Roe
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  • Elizabeth Olive Major
  • Samuel Hosking
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  • Claire
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  • Liz Carnell
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  • Sara Moroza-James
  • Kay Lowney
  • TRACY WARD
  • Zoe Thompson, parent of a child with autism
  • Jill Southgate
  • C E Chate
  • Stephanie Sirr
  • Jane Hawkins
  • Sharon Molineux
  • Celia Forrest
  • Gillian Maguire (Foundation for Conductive Education)
  • Fiona Walker
  • Lesley Barker
  • Clive Anderson
  • ELIZABETH WISEMAN
  • Victoria Stevenson
  • Denise Taylor
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  • Emma Baillie
  • Peta Bennett
  • Tammy Lilley
  • Maria I Martinelli
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  • Kerry McPhail
  • Bob Pritchard
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  • Amanda Hopper
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  • Lucinda Wood
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  • elaine halligan
  • Jonathan Dye
  • Elizabeth Bennett
  • Isabel Clare
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  • lisa hunt
  • Jo Roberts
  • Jane Crittenden
  • Dr Nick Tyrrell
  • Fiona WHelan
  • Paul Ryder
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  • Alison Hunter
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  • julie Barraclough
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  • Clare Boyle
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  • Paula Jones
  • Ruth Pearse
  • jacqueline mitchell
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  • Gary Hart
  • Jackie Luland
  • Anne-Marie King
  • Jasmine Rubens
  • Lee Mead
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  • L Peacock
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  • Hope
  • michelle westburgh
  • Stephen Masson
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  • Cheryl Ledward-Lee
  • Lorraine Cox
  • Kerry Gibbons
  • terry saunders
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  • Theresa Davies
  • Susan Watts
  • Caroline Haycock
  • Sharon Masson
  • Rebecca Barnett
  • Laura Lee
  • ANN KELLY for TOURETTES SUPPORT GROUP
  • ANN KELLY (Parent of child with Special Needs))
  • Jennie Weekes
  • Robert Bell
  • Mick Shimmin
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  • Diane Downey
  • Patrick Downey
  • Jackie Collins
  • Lorraine Forehead
  • Judith Edwards
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  • Kirsty Nichol
  • Paula Ann Beese-Raybould
  • sarah -jayne davis
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  • Ruth Adams
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  • claire trapp
  • Rebekah Holt
  • Iain Franklin
  • Alecia Franklin
  • Esther Cain
  • Lynne Guildford
  • elizabeth atkinson
  • Lindy Hardcastle
  • Chris Jones
  • Laura G
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  • Lorraine Ascough
  • Sheila Daycock
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  • John Sadler
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  • Sandra Speak
  • Daniel Pipe
  • J M Scollen
  • Fern Potter
  • yvonne Thurlow
  • Sharon Rogers
  • Derek Rogers
  • Victoria Worcester
  • Victoria Brand
  • Belinda King
  • Karen Cannon
  • Rachel West
  • Natasha Parr,parent of child with Aspergers Syndrome
  • Paul O'Brollaghain
  • Claire Newill
  • Maureen Frost
  • Naomi Bolt
  • May Chee
  • robert woodcock
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  • IAN Tucker
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  • david robinson
  • Amanda Moore
  • dawn bedwell
  • Amanda Maloney
  • Colin Kirby-Green
  • trudy lees parent of a child with severely physical & learning difficulties
  • kevin stoner
  • Ann Allsop
  • Toni Sears
  • Sarah Lam
  • Chris Clapham
  • Alison Freelander
  • susan thomson
  • David Haddock
  • Jill Gopaul
  • Carol Wallin
  • Janet Paxman
  • Linda Fox
  • Margaret Wickenden
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  • vanessa shingfield
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  • Nick Moore
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  • Zekiye Driver
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  • Jennifer Gray
  • Steve Wood
  • Susannah Cowtan
  • robert tasker
  • Kathryn Freeman
  • John Annan
  • Elaine Roberts
  • Paula Greest
  • Matthew Davis
  • Sarah Jane Kershaw
  • Julie Williams
  • Clare Wright
  • Simeon Joyce
  • Sally Rose
  • Tracey Tromans
  • helen Pearson1
  • Nic Clay-Michael
  • Cathrine Thompson
  • John W B Spencer
  • Margaret Brown
  • Jodie Williams
  • paula hudson
  • Helen Atkins
  • Ian Flain
  • Laura Macleod
  • Susannah Underwood
  • sandra sherratt
  • Clive Atkins
  • Sarah Barrett
  • denise jones
  • j wilkinson
  • Frances Boyd
  • Sue Gerrard
  • Paula Hill
  • claire benjamin
  • Andrew Sloss
  • Stephanie Creasey
  • carole Johnson
  • Ed Peston
  • Christina Higgs
  • Dr Judy Eaton, Psychologist working with children with Autism
  • Karen Shefford
  • JACQUELINE KING
  • John Lavender
  • sarah heyworth
  • L Simpson
  • simon stevens
  • Julia Thorne
  • Linda Ellis
  • David Barker
  • Greg Monks
  • Graham Howard Milne
  • Marije Singer
  • David Essame
  • Maria Evangelou
  • Gemma Aslan
  • Michael Marsden
  • julie burns
  • Janet Kelly
  • Stephen Welch
  • Anne Newling-Ward
  • Hannah Mary Welch
  • David Boul
  • Russell Hutton
  • Ruth Dalton (parent of child with SEN)
  • Lynn Covell
  • steve paszczuk
  • Elaine Stride
  • Laura Covell
  • James Dow-Grant
  • Jane Riordan
  • Elisabeth Cave
  • jane dalton
  • Joan Harris
  • Glenn Stokes
  • INMA LAPEÑA
  • Ian Gill
  • Janet Gill
  • Mary Hughes
  • Rachel Blackmore
  • Emily Welch
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  • Liz Partridge
  • David Leech
  • Angela Bareford
  • D. Anne Welch
  • Gordon Percy
  • louise symonds
  • Nicola Nicholson
  • Karen Hague MBE
  • Darrel Mettam (Paces High Green School for Conductive Education)
  • LAURENCE WEBB
  • Faye Medley
  • Greg Mulholland MP
  • Susan Terry
  • Edward Bauer
  • Alex Hartley
  • Malcolm J Kayes
  • Alan Partridge
  • Katie Gardener
  • Anna Thomas
  • Jane Martin
  • Sally Smith
  • Mrs Louise Morris
  • Robert Battersby
  • Elyan Cox-Davies
  • Jan Harpur
  • Janet Deavin
  • andy avery
  • Carol Ivany
  • Gemma Roulston
  • Karin McHugh
  • andrew redway
  • Elizabeth Llewellyn Preston
  • David Mercer
  • George Duncan Boston
  • Mark Huxtable
  • tricia jarvis
  • SANDI LEWIS
  • R J Gretton
  • Michael Jolliffe
  • Rowena Joyner
  • Mrs Michelle Anderson
  • Michael Anderson
  • David Musty
  • Angela Goodwin
  • steven graham
  • karan adlard
  • Elisabeth Faccinello
  • Simon Burdis
  • Suzie Witherington
  • Jane Sutton
  • margaret jayne faulkner
  • Jenny Heath
  • Dee Stevens
  • Leong Ho
  • Rosie Phillips
  • Mr P D DiPlacito
  • Mrs M A DiPlacito
  • Donna Munro
  • Catherine Bates
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  • Michael O'Flaherty
  • Clive Atkins
  • susan porter
  • Nicky Cooper
  • Marise Garside
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  • M Fitzhugh
  • Ruth McGoldrick
  • Abigail croydon
  • Liz Bailey
  • Lacotea Stansbury-Power
  • Mandy Gamon
  • lorraine goodrum
  • Kath Kenyon
  • Dr Shereen Hussein
  • S.hayman
  • KAREN YOUNG
  • Nick King
  • Devon Cameron
  • Jane Dawson
  • lucy horsfall
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  • Moira Thompson
  • mrs donna newell
  • sarah jones
  • Moira Cordon
  • Jennie Petherbridge
  • Inacia de Comarmond
  • Neil Burrows
  • Mrs Angela Williams
  • jenny philips
  • Jane Pulford
  • Howard Burton
  • Jeffery Frampton
  • Jocelyn Oram
  • Derek R Allum
  • Ian Paton
  • Lesley Sivachanthiran

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