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"The Children and Families Act has been hailed as delivering "the biggest reforms to the special educational needs system for a generation" and is intended to create "a more effective, transparent and accountable system of support for children and young people with special educational needs". The act takes a step forward by creating a holistic 0-25 system for the first time, rather than cutting off young people's chances by moving to an entirely separate system when they reach 18. But will it change the most basic injustice: that 70 years on from the introduction of universal education in 1944, children with autism are still missing out on their fundamental right to go to school? When 40 per cent of children with autism are missing out on full-time education, we cannot claim to have a system of SEN support that works."