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Sean Kennedy - Legal Adviser for Anna Kennedy OnlineLegal Updates
Sean Kennedy – Legal Adviser for Anna Kennedy Online
Sean is a barrister and has broad experience in several practice areas, but his focus has been in the areas of SEN, disability and employment law and trust law. Sean is a Legal Adviser for Anna Kennedy Online keeping us all up to date with his articles.
Please read the articles below to read about our legal updates and articles of interest
Boris Johnson’s response to the SEND Green Paper
Dear Dr Kennedy, Thank you for taking the time to contact me about the Government’s plans for reforms to the SEND system.
The Importance of Reasonable Adjustments – a reminder on World Autism Awareness Day
The Importance of Reasonable Adjustments a reminder on World Autism Awareness Day by Mandy Aulak and Sean Kennedy Talem Law
Autistic People and the Police
Autistic People and the Police By Detective Chief Inspector Dion Brown Metropolitan Police Service and Sean Kennedy Barrister
Wirral teen missed out on post-16 education because of council faults
Wirral MBC has been asked to pay a teenager more than £4,000 after it failed to put in place proper educational provision for him.
‘Affluent families’ to blame for rise in special needs hearings
A report for the Local Government Association (LGA) blaming the increase in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) tribunal cases
High Court calls time on council delays
In a landmark judgment issued on 8th March 2022 the High Court has made it clear that every local council must keep to fixed legal time
Herts teen left without proper SEND support for three years
A teenager on the autism spectrum was left without a significant proportion of his agreed special educational needs support
One third of families with disabled children have gone into debt funding their child’s education
PARENTS of children with disabilities are spending tens of thousands of pounds and/or going into debt fighting for, and funding, services that should be provided by government and local authorities.
Councils wasted millions fighting parents at the SEND Tribunal
Councils wasted £253 million fighting parents at the SEND Tribunal since 2014 reforms Somehow it’s already early December That means it
Elective Home Education
This guidance from the Department of Education
Finding the racial minority voices in SEND
The word inclusive is often used in the SEND sector and, just as often it fails to materialise For families from ethnic backgrounds it
Autism Diagnosis delays are across the media once again
Autism Diagnosis delays are across the media once again
Let us Learn too – a response from the Prime Minister
On 8th September we contributed and signed the ‘Let us Learn too’ letter in collaboration with many other individuals and groups passionate about the right to a good education for our children.
Mate crime of vulnerable autistic individuals on the increase
I was listening to the news on the radio and yet again a 15-year-old autistic individual targeted by gangs
Autism Awareness at New Scotland Yard
Anna Kennedy OBE and DCI Dion Brown talked All things Autism at New Scotland Yard Friday last week
Judicial Alternative Dispute Resolution Hearings Pilot 2021
Judicial Alternative Dispute Resolution Hearings Pilot 2021
Introducing – The Big e
Introducing – The Big e
Special Educational Provision – Who is Responsible for Ensuring it is Put in Place?
Who is Responsible for Ensuring it is Put in Place