#Starmer chosen the best there to muck up any future #Send plans
#WesStreeting takes money from health care companies to privatise the #NHS
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:psl3vtmvduvmmy336lqcuhfy/post/3me7b4kapuc2b
#SEND
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/116018006083504431
@2legged hits the SEND nail on the head - at the heart of the politics of SEND is a paradox that as yet has not been grasped not resolved....
@ChrisMayLA6 The whole #SEND process could have been designed to break disastrously.
SEND creates unconstrained demands on finite budgets. That is bound to break.
There are two possible types of solution:
1/ treat SEND assessments like most other #publicServices: as a priority ranking, rather than absolute right.
2/ devise a system where funding expands to follows needs.
Problems either way. But it's fantasy to pretend that absolute rights can be met by finite resources.
Until recently I was a panel member for school admission appeals. A lot of our caseload involved children with SEND whose current school was not meeting their needs. And too often the school they wanted was stating they had no capacity. On one hand these children had legal rights, but with no way to get the environment or teaching they need to succeed.
We have been disadvantaging them, and for too many reducing any chance of future employment. The latter is a major longer term cost but government isn't designed to pay now to save later, particularly HMT.
Short term savings by moving the goalposts, with huge personal, family and unemployment costs for decades.
How big a problem is the funding of Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) funding?
Deficits at local councils in the SEND budgets have risen overall from £200mn in 2020-21 to £2.5bn for 2025-26, with a growing number of councils reporting they're approaching insolvency as a result.
The problem is the Govt. looks likely to try to 'solve' this issue by excluding more children from SEND support schemes, once again prioritising cost-cutting over social provision.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/01/ministers-lobbying-blitz-avoid-labour-rebellion-send-changes. If "reform" of #SEND means cuts to the special #educational needs & #disabilities budget, then the #Labour #Government can stick it. It will be yet another attack on #disabled people, in this case, disabled #children, & their #parents. People didn't vote for that!
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Rightly the Govt. has decided to push back any reform of the criteria for eligibility for education, health and care plans (EHCPs) until the provisions for children with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) is improved & expanded in mainstream schools.... whether this is the answer is another Q. but at least this is being done before reforming EHCPs.
However, this is not a problem or issue that is going to go away.
UK government and open data people, if you know a statutory return supports a different bit of analysis, how would you get that analysis regularly published in the open data based on the returns?
@SpecialNeedsJungle Adding some hashtags to increase visibility of the above post: #UKpol #disabilityrights #autism #SEND
Special Needs Jungle is a great source of information for any parent of a child with special educational needs (whether diagnosed or not) in the UK, and more broadly for anyone interested in education policy. They deserve more followers in the Fediverse.
Councillor backs campaign for reforms to education sector funding
I was thinking the other day about how George Osborne seems to lead a gilded life and how unpleasant and stupid the early years of the coalition government were so one of the things I like about this post from John Harris is that he calls out Osborne on his politics and where they led - https://open.substack.com/pub/maybeimamazed/p/whether-the-government-likes-it-or?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
#ukpol #send
RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/115886445692896252
Thanks @cassolotl for this advice!
Hi, I'm Lauren and I live in Yorkshire, the best of the Shires.
I am interested in:
#Education & #teaching, with a focus on #SEND
Telling everyone to join a #tradeunion and remember that most evil in the world today is caused by billionaires
Drinking #coffee and home #cooking
Saving money, reducing waste and sharing #frugal tips
Listening to #music and #podcasts
Trying to practice #mindfulness in my actions and choices
Oh, and our true overlords, #cats 😺
Do you want to guess which party is running Leicestershire County Council?
"Specialist nurseries for children in Leicestershire to be scrapped"
NEW EXCLUSIVE: Our hero, Matt Keer, has followed the money via FOIs, discovering LAs largely ignored Government’s “strong recommendations” to spend SEND cash on mainstream places: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/exclusive-las-ignore-governments-recommend-spend-send-capital-cash/
#SEND #EHCP #saveourchildrensrights
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