‘Different thinking’ needed on Send funding, Phillipson says
by Richard Adams Education editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6VY5P)
School leaders says current special educational needs system in England is on brink of collapse
Parents will need to think very differently" about government funding for children with special educational needs, the education secretary has said, as school leaders say the current system is on the brink of collapse.
Speaking to the Association of School and College Leaders annual conference in Liverpool, Bridget Phillipson said the 2014 Children and Families Act needed to be changed to reform the current system in England that was driving local authorities towards insolvency.
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