Surge in need for council SEND support

Published date29 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The Local Government Association has called for emergency action to ensure this rising demand for support is met

The LGA has said that Government needs to resolve the high needs deficits built up by councils as a result of rising costs which outstrip the SEND budgets available to them.

The number of initial requests for an Education, Health and Care plan, setting out the individual SEND support a child needs, fell to 75,951 in 2020, following four consecutive years of increases, and...

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