The changes to Education are also worth watching. They are designed to remove what meagre SEN support children already get and shut down specialist provisions in favour of “mainstreaming”. They are also shutting the door on future SEN children by stopping EHCPs while promising that those currently with them will be protected. The funding for this: a one-off sum of £4 billion spread over 3 years and then… mainstream schools will have to pay for SEN out of their existing budgets.
Let’s be honest. This is something even the Tories would have hesitated about and another example of why Labour - like all political parties in Westminster - are NOT on our side.
The changes to Education are also worth watching. They are designed to remove what meagre SEN support children already get and shut down specialist provisions in favour of “mainstreaming”. They are also shutting the door on future SEN children by stopping EHCPs while promising that those currently with them will be protected. The funding for this: a one-off sum of £4 billion spread over 3 years and then… mainstream schools will have to pay for SEN out of their existing budgets.
Let’s be honest. This is something even the Tories would have hesitated about and another example of why Labour - like all political parties in Westminster - are NOT on our side.
Special Educational Needs
Educational Health and Care Plan