Locations for 16 new special needs schools in England announced
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Published 2024-05-09
In the latest of our series looking at the crisis in special educational needs, We joined Education Secretary Gillian Keegan last week, as she visited places that are helping pupils not only cope but thrive in school.
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All Comments (21)
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I do not understand how Keegan, who clearly does care here about these kids, doesn’t speak up against the cuts her party has inflicted on local authorities to support SEND kids. My son literally cannot attend mainstream school and he’s at home with us now. We are happy to have him safe and settled at home but he wants to learn and have friends at school too. But his needs cannot be met in a mainstream classroom
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More money, staff, facilities and support provision in mainstream schools is essential! The time it takes in setting up new SEN schools takes so long, and in that time many children are lost. Our schools and school staff need more help & support now
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This despicable woman is unfortunately our MP and she can't even ensure adequate funding for special needs school on our area, our disabled daughter still has not been allocated a place. If this government had not wasted so much money on the Rwanda scam, just think how better our schools would be.
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The right educational setting with decent, caring & trained staff for a child can make a lifetime difference.
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I have an autistic child in mainstream school. The school keeps telling me that they can't meet his needs. I applied for a special needs place. This school had 150 applications! They never answered to me. Then I found about a new SSC unit opened near us with only 4 places! Mainstream schools don't want to include children because of the money, but special needs schools are overwhelmed. No win for some....
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As someone who went to a SEN school we must remember not all are amazing and do there job right. I was severely nit treated right by adults and students and they always ignored my needs 0:12
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They shouldn't have got rid of them in the first place !!!!
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In the entirety of the UK there are only 22 schools for the deaf. Between 2011 and 2022 the number of specialist teachers for the deaf fell by 16.5%, despite the UK population growing by 5.9% during that period.
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Home education is always an option, don't force your kids to suffer a bad school if it ruins their mental health
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I was new student and moved to England. I was bullied beating being foreign and culture things. Teachers failed stop bullying. This is racism in uk. I witnessed another students bullying with disabled students. What wrong’s England’s schools?
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Despicable, this should be 16 per county. I know of many children stuck at home or in schools not meeting their needs that have been stuck there for years waiting for a school place.
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With O levels and A levels on top of classes, mainstream education would have threw me into a cycle of mental anguish. I would have thrived at a school like this, because it would have helped me.
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Undoing damage after years of neglect elsewhere isn't necessarily "the right provision". I've visited a few special schools with quite reduces demands and expectations, so, no, the best outcome isn't guaranteed.
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Nice to see someone involved that has had direct experience with this issue. She can obviously bring a lot of realistic insight to the table. "After primary school, he would not cope in a mainstream setting"
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14 years and ministers mostly decline or are too busy for C4 News ... with 7 months before an election deadline, facing historic electoral defeat and now they suddenly have time for C4 news.
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Brilliant news. Everyone deserves the best education 🇬🇧
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I left school 29 years ago now and my whole school life I was failed by the system, my parents asked for extra support and always got told the same thing, your daughter is just lazy. (How could i have been lazy when they never tested me) so how is it she's saying it's only been 14 years.
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Happy they have a good space for them to grow!
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Oh i wish we were going this way where i live. We are planning the opposite. Special schools are being closed to move kids into mainstream schools with the aim of mainstream for everyone so everyone gets used to differences.
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Not that there is not money for sen support but that many schools use that TA/1:1 for other jobs and therefore neglecting the child that she's been recruted specifically to support. The reality is that favourism, conflict of interests, lack of commitment to the job fail neurotypical and atypical students. If you're personally close friends with a senco and teachers lots of attention and effort happens even without a budget.
