13th Feb 2026 Cllr Kizzy Gardiner, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, announced the news today that 100 children( over the next 5 years) with special educational needs or disabilities will have a school place at a new site in Chapel End, Walthamstow, in plans the council has put forward. The school would be run by the Lime Trust, which already runs two specialist schools in the borough. The Council has a statutory duty to maintain enough school places for children

Back from a trip to Sheffield this week for the National Network of Parent Carer Forums and Contact joint conference. It was a really valuable opportunity to meet up with other parent carer forums from across the country and to spend time with representatives from the Department for Education. This included Claire Burton, Director for SEND and AP, and members of her team, who joined us for the full day and took part in workshops to hear directly from forums. Claire spoke abou

Click the link here to read the SEND Vision from Waltam Forest.

Waltham Forest Council outlines its aspiration to become an autism-friendly borough to improve the lives of up to 3,000 autistic residents.

From 1st August we have a new Mediation/Disagreement Resolution Service in the borough:

Amarjit Chauhan will be the new Short Breaks Officer from 2nd August 2021.

The SEND team at Wood St have been reorganising how SEND officers will be allocated to children with EHCs.

The Twilight Sessions are for parents to come and talk to the service about any concerns that they have about the EHCP.

To find out more about more about the consultation for high needs block funding bands please click the link for the January 2020 update.

Please click on the link to find out the outcomes to the Local Area Inspection Revisit:

Ofsted & CQC Revisit Announced - March 2019

Here is the link to the Children's Services Inspection that took place in March 2019. Click the link below: https://files.api.ofsted.gov....

Here is the PDF for the Written Statement of Action following the local inspection in 2017:

Review the SEND Inspection outcomes for Waltham Forest. This update was created in January 2017: