Posted on Tuesday 7th Jan 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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