If parties are serious about rebuilding trust, as the elections approach, they must embrace bold redistribution, invest in public services and put working people, not the wealthy few, at the heart of Scotland’s future, argues ROZ FOYER
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Alternative provision in schools: a response to the Send review
A new proposed three-tier model for pupils with special educational needs is out of touch and will not provide the support which we know young people need, argues LEIGH SEEDHOUSE
Sinn Fein’s CHRIS HAZZARD MP addressed the closing rally at Latin America 2026 earlier this month with a reminder that the struggle for national dignity and popular power is no longer regional or symbolic — it is the front line of a global realignment led by organised peoples who refuse to bow to empire. The Star republishes his speech here
LEIGH SEEDHOUSE looks at why special educational needs is in crisis — and why the government’s pledge of Send training for every teacher is a poisoned chalice
As Beijing gathers for its annual ‘Two Sessions,’ all eyes are on China’s technological blueprint that will steer the world’s second-largest economy forwards in the coming period, says ZHANG HE
Twice elected in Battersea, ‘Comrade Sak’ devoted his life to the twin causes of working-class struggle and Indian independence – a legacy now honoured 90 years after his death, write DAVID HORSLEY and JEANNE RATHBONE
The real question for Your Party, as it holds its CEC elections, will be whether shaped from above or built from below by empowered branches and a bold, uncompromising socialist programme. Mel Mullings, Riccardo la Torre and Chloe Braddock of the Grassroots Left slate set out their case
THE special educational needs and disability (Send) and alternative provision green paper has been published following the completion of the Department for Education’s long-awaited Send review which was launched in 2019.
The proposals, backed by £70 million of new funding, include increased early intervention for children with Send, and a single system combining Send and alternative education provision feature highly in the plans.
The paper’s vision is for all alternative provision (AP) to be part of a “strong multiacademy trust (MAT)” which will set “robust standards focused on progress, reintegration into mainstream education or sustainable post-16 destination” — all of which will be monitored through a national AP performance framework and performance table.
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