The special educational needs framework is the best way to respond to trans pupils in schools

Dr David Buck is an independent educational psychology consultant based in Canterbury. He originally trained as a Biology and Maths secondary school teacher.

If your job has anything to do with schools, you’ll be well aware of the detailed and nuanced framework of rules intended to help education professionals to do their job, to safeguard pupils – and to respond appropriately to complex and sometimes novel challenges.

And so you’d think that the recent huge increase in the number of pupils identifying as trans would be responded to within this framework, with schools, local authorities (LAs) and other agencies using them to fulfil their statutory duty to act in these children’s best interests.

You would be wrong….

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