Bridget Phillipson’s reforms to SEND provisions will not reduce spending on education, health and care packages for nine years. EHCPs are impose requirements on councils to pay through the nose for elements of special needs provision for each child…
Phillipson is spending £4 billion on reforms over three years. It will be harder to get an EHCP from 2030 but the savings won’t come in until years later. The number of children getting a certificate is due to continue to rise up to that point. It already costs £12 billion…
The TaxPayers’ Alliance have produced some statistics on SEND provisions in local authorities:
Some individual councils:
Phillipson is spending £4 billion over three years on her wide-ranging reforms, which include an effort to get special needs children into regular schools. The National Education Union says that’s not enough:
“The NEU has been calling for funding for more resources for inclusion in mainstream schools, so we welcome the announcement of the inclusion grant. However, it is too small. It only equates to a part-time teaching assistant for the average primary school and two teaching assistants for average secondary schools. This is not enough to make schools more inclusive.“
The NASUWT teaching union said “this new funding is barely a drop in the bucket of the investment necessary to drive real improvement in schools.” Numerous backbenchers will follow the unions. Does the PLP have another hysterical rebellion in it this side of a new PM?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”