Donna Wiggett: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- General secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists
- Quoted on
- NHS & care workforce/staffing, Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“EPs want to be in school, observing children, doing interventions and upskilling teachers and school staff to enable better outcomes for children – we are the best placed people.”
What Donna Wiggett has said
“The 'grow your own' schemes put forward by six councils were 'helpful' but 'unlikely to enable enough recruitment to meet government plans unless they are backed by a funded national workforce strategy'”
General secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists · Learning disability & autism · 29 Sept 2026 · Councils SEND further education to the back of the queue ↗
“proposals were "helpful" but "unlikely to enable enough recruitment to meet government plans unless they are backed by a funded national workforce strategy"”
general secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists · NHS & care workforce/staffing · 29 Sept 2026 · Expert staff shortages a key threat to SEND reform plans ↗
Where Donna Wiggett has been quoted
- Minister’s rallying cry for expert SEND staff to returnschoolsweek.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Councils SEND further education to the back of the queuefeweek.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Expert staff shortages a key threat to SEND reform plansschoolsweek.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
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