Special Needs Jungle, In Conversation

Join Special Needs Jungle's Renata Blower, Tania Tirraoro and team, in conversations about current issues and interesting aspects around special educational needs and disabilities. The team will be chatting with a variety of voices from the world of SEND, explaining, exploring and educating on everything you need to know. The programme is also available in vision on YouTube. Theme credit: Luca Tirraoro

Special Needs Jungle, In Conversation is a kids podcast hosted by Special Needs Jungle, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Special Needs Jungle hosts Special Needs Jungle, In Conversation, a kids show with 22 episodes published.

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  Special Needs Jungle, In Conversation

  Will school SEND funding be ringfenced?

  May 14, 202659 min

  Education Minister, Georgia Gould, who has responsibility for the Schools White Paper's SEND reform proposals, speaks to Special Needs Jungle about the Government's plans for SEND. The Minister answered questions sent in by SNJ's audience and those attending the webinar. She mentioned ringfencing of SEND funding in schools twice--but does she mean what we mean by it? Ms Gould repeatedly stressed people could respond to any aspect of the proposals, and that nothing was set in stone. It sounded like there will ne movement on many of the initial plans as set out in the consultation--but defended the moved to rein in the Tribunal in ways that were not convincing to those attending.

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  SNJ's Legal Round Table on the SEND Proposals in the Schools White Paper

  Mar 24, 20261h 31mS0

  <p>On 23/3/26, Special Needs Jungle held a webinar focusing on the legal implications of the SEND proposals in the 2026 Schools White Paper. This webinar is just under 1' 30". The webinar features solicitors Hayley Mason Seager, CEO of SEN Legal, Polly Sweeney, Partner at Rook Irwin Sweeney, Eleanor Wright Legal Officer with SEND legal charity SOS!SEN, and Kate Cox, Senior Solicitor with SEND legal charity, IPSEA. The wide-ranging webinar looked at proposals to change EHCPs, creating four "tiers" of support, that would raise the threshold for EHCPs, Education Other Than at School (EOTAS/EOTIS) packages, Schools and school governors, and...

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  SNJ in Conversation: CFA 10 years on Brian Lamb OBE says building good parental relationships is the key to fixing SEND

  Aug 28, 20241 hourS0

  <p>SNJ's Sharon Smith and Tania Tirraoro talk to veteran SEND expert, Brian Lamb OBE a new episode of SNJ in Conversation on the Children and Families Act 10 years on. Brian says building good parental relationships is the key to fixing SEND</p> <p>Find the webpage for this episode here</p>

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  Episode #20

  SNJ in Conversation with Edward Timpson CBE KC “You’ve got to really care about families and their lives …”

  May 30, 202457 minS0

  <p>In the third podcast in our series on a decade of the Children and Families Act 2014, SNJ ’s Tania and Renata talks to former SEND Minister, Edward Timpson, who steered the legislation through parliament. We discuss the battles he had to fight to create a legal duty on health in the Act, and to bring in Ofsted /CQC SEND inspections. What does he wish he’d been able to push further? And what else might be different if he hadn’t lost his seat—and ministerial role— in the 2017 election. </p> <p>Edward Timpson grew up surrounded by children his parent...

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  SNJ in Conversation: 10 years of the Children & Families Act: Philippa Stobbs on the wins and losses

  May 17, 20241h 13mS0

  <p>Philippa Stobbs OBE worked for 30 years at the centre of developing national SEND policy with the Council for Disabled Children—she's the highly-respected doyenne of SEN. Few people have as encyclopaedic knowledge of special educational needs as she does. She spent decades negotiating with the government of the day to ensure legislation and new policy supported children with disabilities, pushing back against government plans that would do the opposite. In a fascinating and educational conversation, Philippa talks to SNJ's Tania Tirraoro and Sharon Smith about a decade of the Children and Families Act 2014 that she was instrumental in influencing, wh...

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