Schools ‘in crisis’ over special needs education | Politics | News
For students with special needs, education needs “crisis” and radical changes to ensure that hundreds of thousands of children get the help they need. The government comes while preparing to reveal radical changes that have already opposed the opposition from parents. Training Secretary Bridget Phillipsson is expected to move away from relying on education, health and care (EHC) plans that give children the right to support for young people needed by the default needs in the classrooms.
Helen Hayes, President of the Commons Training Committee, said that the support of special education needs and disabled students (SOD) “broken, need repair and disappointed children chronically”. The number of children and young people with special education needs increased from 1.3 million to 1.7 million in 2014 and about half a million students (EHC) have a plan.
However, the Committee said that the “exhausted parents”, who fought for basic support, heard that teachers were “going beyond capacity” and that they were “pursued under pressure” from teachers working in an education system.
MPs said: “The current system does not work. The level of need is to make an overwhelming coercion to services and professionals in both education and health sectors and ultimately creates a crisis.”
They said that special needs should be an internal part of the main education system, reduce the need for expensive EHC plans and reduce the cost to schools and local authorities.
The inter -party committee government called on to provide better education to teachers and ensure that health service works closer to schools.
In addition, he called for an increase in the number of expert schools in the state sector, so that more children can be trained closer home and spend expensive independent school places.
Autism is the most common type of need specified in the EHC plans mentioned in one -third of the cases, but since the Committee has been a special increase in speech, language and communication needs and social, emotional and mental health needs since Covid Pandemi.
