Mark Rogers, director of children's services at Solihull Council, saidthat last week's damning report by Parliament's Education and SkillsSelect Committee was "absolutely spot on".
The report on special educational needs criticises the Government on anumber of fronts:
- It accuses ministers of sending out a "confused message" to localauthorities about whether they should be closing special schools
- It claims the lack of a clear national strategy for issuing statementsof special educational needs has led to a "postcode lottery"
- It says that not enough money is being spent on training teachers tohelp children with special educational needs and it highlights ashortage of educational psychologists
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