Julianne Miller

SEN support in school is changing. On 6 October 2026 I attended Professor Christopher Robertson’s webinar on SEND policy reform in England. This post is an update on what I learned. I’m sure you are aware of ‘the SEND crisis’: a growing funding deficit for SEN provision in England. Local authorities in England were estimated to have built up a combined SEND deficit of £6 billion by April 2026. There is an argument to be made that if specialist educational support were to be more accessible in...

The battle to complete homework is a familiar one to parents of a child with ADHD. After a long day at school, with medication waning, it can be hard for a child to get excited about a 30 minute maths sheet - even if maths is a strength. Parents become increasingly inventive, frustrated and sometimes just despairing: how can I get my child to just pay attention for long enough to get this done? The A in ADHD is attention, and so it follows that we try to restore attention. Medication is...

A new UK definition of dyslexia I wanted to share this one because it is already being operationalised in the UK as part of granting extra time and other exam accommodations. It will help you, as a parent, understand more about decisions being made for your child. A large panel of dyslexia experts has agreed on a shared definition of dyslexia for the first time. They also agreed on how it should be identified. The researchers ran a two-round survey with 58 experts from the UK and 13 other...