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Samantha Spencer

Samantha is the Senior Researcher for SEND Futures at NatCen. This is a two-wave survey of young people in Year 8 and Year 9 in England with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their parents and carers. The findings from this feasibility study will support best practice for the Department for Education to establish a longitudinal study of SEND learners.

Samantha also manages the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) at NatCen for the Centre for Longitudinal Studies which is a longitudinal study following the lives of babies born one week in April 1970 to the present day.

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