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Special Needs Education- a disgusting state of affairs!

(30 Posts)
annodomini Mon 02-Apr-18 21:56:09

This is what happens when accountability for education is removed from local authorities. In less than 20 years, the structures of local accountability have been dismantled in England and how are parents to cope with no support from the faceless bureaucracy of Westminster?

hildajenniJ Mon 02-Apr-18 21:11:10

My DGC are all on the autism spectrum. They were all in school, but they were being failed. The school just didn't know how to teach them. Of the three of them, only GS 1 had any help, and that was only for 2 hours a week. My DD decided to take them out of school and is teaching then herself.

midgey Mon 02-Apr-18 21:04:54

But it’s not only children with special needs, shocking though that is, in some areas parents are simply not allocated a place and are just told to home educate! I know because this happened to my granddaughter.

Luckygirl Mon 02-Apr-18 20:46:48

Indeed it is disgraceful. Parents are being fined for taking children out of school for a week's holiday, while four thousand children are receiving no education at all through lack of resources.

trisher Mon 02-Apr-18 20:25:32

As it is revealed that the number of children with special needs unable to find a school place doubled in 2017 from 1,710 in 2016 to 4,050 in 2017. How can anyone believe that education is safe in this government's hands? The children most in need are being consigned to the scrap heap. It's disgusting!
www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/special-educational-needs-school-funding-cuts-national-education-union-neu-a8282816.html