Headteachers are worried that proposals to streamline SEN identification could be nothing more than an exercise in cost-cutting.
The Department for Education has confirmed that it is to go ahead with proposals outlined in its SEN Green Paper published last year.
The changes, planned for 2014, will see the rules on what constitutes an SEN tightened up after Ofsted claimed that many low achieving students were being wrongly identified as having special needs.
Formal SEN statements and Learning Difficulty Assessments will be scrapped and replaced with a single Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) setting out the support that a child with SEN will need from birth to 25.
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