A plan for better special needs assessment

Jan 7, 2025

John Wright highlights three improvements that parents and professionals should fight for with regard to the process for obtaining EHCPs for children

Re John Harris’s article (The culture wars are coming for children with special needs – Labour must tread carefully, 29 December), the special educational needs and disabilities (Send) problem does not lie in the legal framework, which from the 1981 Education Act on, through several iterations in law, has provided a legal entitlement for children with Send to receive the provision required to meet those needs.

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