Welcome to the FLSE
'A Collective Voice for Special Education’
Welcome to the Federation of Leaders in Special Education (FLSE). We are 'the voice' of leaders who are delivering education, welfare, care, support and guidance to children and young adults with special education needs and disabilities, wherever they are, throughout their educational years.
The FLSE is a registered charity - No: 1137564.
You can find a lot more details about this website in general and what's available in our BLOGS section.
Any relevant news and articles announced by the Department for Education (DfE) will be published on our website as soon as possible! (Currently there is no RSS feed for e-consultations from the DfE website - See DfE).
To find out more about the FLSE, who we are, what we do, who's who etc, go to About Us.
Headline News
To read the detail behind the 'Headline News' items below, then go to our Latest News Blog, which will provide the background to all the very latest education stories, as well as other news.
And if you want to read the lastest of our 'Members News Updates' or want to get a back copy, then go to our 'Document Bank'.
September
05/09/10 - Sandwell Conservative defects over schools cuts - A Conservative councillor has defected to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme.
05/09/10 - Recession and cuts hit thousands of schoolchildren - An increase in pupils and squeezed budgets bring more temporary classrooms and fewer subjects
05/09/10 - Gove unveils first wave of free schools - Parents and teachers disillusioned with local education are among the first 16 groups to set up their own academies, which open next year.
05/09/10 - Schools are lining up for academy status – but not enough for Michael Gove - On the face of it, the numbers are disappointing for the education secretary
04/09/10 - Michael Gove dealt fresh blow as only 20 'free schools' approved - Exclusive: Education secretary had claimed that more than 700 'free schools' could be established due to high demand
03/09/10 - Now just one man aged under 25 works in a state nursery school - Fear that generation of boys will have no male role model.
03/09/10 - Michael Gove: worst primary schools 'will become academies' - Failing primary schools will be converted into academies in a drive to improve education standards in England, Michael Gove signals today.
02/09/10 - Gove's schools revolution begins with a whimper - A mixture of teaching union pressure, legal hitches and a lack of interest from schools marred the first day of the Government's blitz to boost the academies programme yesterday.
02/09/10 - Academies will give more children a chance - New types of schools can educate without the burden of bureaucracy, says Michael Gove.
01/09/10 - Weeks after Academies Act passed, 142 schools to convert to academy status
01/09/10 - Disabled are socially excluded says Scope survey - Nine out of 10 people in Britain have never had a disabled person in their house for a social occasion, claims a survey from a disability charity.
01/09/10 - Only 32 schools will reopen as academies - Just 32 schools will reopen as academies this month after taking Education Secretary Michael Gove up on his offer to apply for the status, government figures will reveal today.
August
31/08/10 - Schools reform 'held up' by trade union militants - Michael Gove's plan to kick-start an education revolution has been delayed by militant trade unions and inefficient Whitehall officials, it will emerge this week.
30/08/10 - Allow private firms to run schools, says Ofsted chief - Private companies should be allowed to take over the running of state schools, the outgoing chairman of Ofsted has said.
30/08/10 - Teachers’ fear of discipline holds back their pupils - A change in schools' culture is needed if bad behaviour is to be eradicated
28/08/10 - School admissions: Mixing is the route to mobility - It is welcome that a new report proposes a solution to the exclusion of the poor from the best comprehensive schools - fair banding
27/08/10 - Gove promises 'action' on education inequality - Education Secretary Michael Gove has said that banding by ability "has a role to play" in schools in England
27/08/10 - Sir Ken Robinson - A chance to see him in the UK - How do you effectively engage employees and inspire their very best and most innovative work?
27/08/10 - Views sought in education review in Northamptonshire - Proposals to keep pupils with moderate learning difficulties in mainstream schools are being considered in a review of services in Northamptonshire.
27/08/10 - Barnardo's calls for fairer school admissions - School fence Some parents feel daunted by the admissions system.
26/08/10 - Back to school with a bump: Britain's headteachers' associations on spending cuts, Coalition plans and boycotts - Two heads are better than one, or so the saying goes.
25/08/10 - School that refused to become academy is most improved - It was probably the kind of place that Alastair Campbell had in mind when he referred to "bog standard comprehensive schools".
24/08/10 - Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record - More than half a million pupils are getting their results
24/08/10 - Academy funding contract drops key education duties - Government accused of altering legislation without consulting education professionals or the public.
23/08/10 - North Yorkshire schools set to receive £2.6m to help pupils with SEN - Schools across North Yorkshire will benefit from a £2.6m fund to provide "enhanced resources" for vulnerable children and young people
19/08/10 - Star students: New A* grades have revived debate about dumbing down - A-levels need further reform still, says Richard Garner, but exam quality is only part of the problem
19/08/10 - A-level results 2010: A-level pass rate rises to 97.6% - A-level pass rate rises for 28th year, sparking intense battle for university places
19/08/10 - Gloucestershire council sorry over ADHD boy's tuition - A county council has apologised for failing to make adequate provision for the education of a boy with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
18/08/10 - Leeds set for £10 million 'world-leader' school building - Plans for a £10 million development - which will be one of the most cutting-edge and energy-efficient school buildings in the world - have been unveiled in Leeds.
17/08/10 - Teacher Expertise for SEN - Special schools are suffering from a desperate shortage of teachers trained to deal with pupils with special needs.
17/08/10 - Ofsted warning over 'untracked' children - Ofsted surveyed 15 local authorities of different sizes across England in urban and rural areas.
17/08/10 - Academies may prove to be less independent than they think - The 2010 Academies Act might end up giving central government too much power over teachers and schools, argues Tom Clark
14/08/10 - Education Secretary U-turns on plan to cap head teachers' pay - Michael Gove has backtracked on plans to cap the salaries of head teachers paid more than the Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday.
14/08/10 - Michael Gove's big examination - Michael Gove has always been a man who likes to master the facts.
14/08/10 - 2,000 jobs to go as Audit Commission is scrapped - The Audit Commission, the watchdog that monitors town hall waste, is to be scrapped with the loss of 2,000 jobs, the Government announced yesterday.
14/08/10 - Firms and charities line up to run free schools - Private firms are lining up with parent groups to run the Conservatives' flagship "free schools" in England.
12/08/10 - 'One in, one out' school exclusions rules on hold - The government has put on hold the implementation of rules forcing schools in England to co-operate locally over excluded pupils.
12/08/10 - State schools keen to sign up for old-style exams - The number of state schools considering ditching GCSEs in favour of an exam based on traditional O-level principles
12/8/10 - The Low Points of High Office - Clever and charming and with a clear commitment to the job, Michael Gove has attracted vociferous criticism during his first months in office.
10/08/10 - Children will lose out under new education policies - Two new education policies show the true ideological nature of the cuts to come - and vulnerable children are the ones who will suffer most.
09/08/10 - Liberal Democrats call for boycott of flagship free schools - The coalition is heading for a potentially damaging split on education as Liberal Democrats prepare at their conference next month to urge parents not to send their children to Michael Gove's flagship free schools.
06/08/10 - Rebuild plans for 77 schools given green light - Some 77 schools left in limbo by the government's scrapping of England's school building scheme have been given the green light, the BBC has learned.
06/08/10 - Child protection database to be switched off - A £235m government database containing the records of England's 11 million children is being switched off.
06/08/10 - Local authorities threaten legal action over axed school buildings programme - Michael Gove's decision to cancel more than 700 school building projects has prompted local authorities to take legal advice.
05/08/10 - Gove to come under attack as he meets teachers to discuss cancelled building projects - The education secretary will meet staff in Sandwell, where teachers were mistakenly told their schemes were not under threat.
03/08/10 - DfE response to public comments on the coalition agreement on schools - We welcome the public comments made in response to the schools agenda set out in The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (which covers policy for schools in England only).
01/08/10 - Michael Gove accused of exaggerating interest in free schools - Education secretary under fire after it emerges there have been just 62 applications for free schools, less than a tenth of the number he said had shown interest.
01/08/10 - Gove's academies: 1980s idea rebranded? - In education, if you wait long enough, most ideas come full circle.
Ofsted - SEND Review - read the latest Blog.
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