{"id":439495,"date":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439495\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","slug":"bridget-phillipson-says-send-reforms-will-transform-support-for-children-and-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439495\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Phillipson says SEND reforms will &#8216;transform support for children and families&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget Phillipson and Laura Trott to be questioned by Kuenssbergpublished at 08:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Education Secretary Bridget Phillips and Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott in a composite image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6ef973e5-dce5-4a47-bfed-a6de55912a05.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"976\" height=\"549\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good morning and welcome to this week&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour&#8217;s Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will be in the hot seat this morning, joined by shadow education secretary Laura Trott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This comes just before the Schools White Paper is announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan is expected to set a target to halve the disadvantage gap between students in England within two decades. It will also propose changes to how support needs for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are reviewed as they move from primary to secondary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also appearing on the show are former prime minister Boris Johnson and former head of the military Adm Tony Radakin. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp32n6vxqplo\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read more here before they appear on screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This page will not have regular updates, but you can watch the show from 09:00 GMT by clicking watch live at the top of this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridget Phillipson and Laura Trott to be questioned by Kuenssbergpublished at 08:49 GMT 08:49 GMT Image source, Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}