The statement comes as the government confirmed a £700m cash boost for SEND on Friday (30 August), as part of a £14bn schools funding package.
The move was hinted at last week in leaked documents, though is £100m short of plugging the claimed £800m funding gap.
Some 80 per cent of parents of SEND children are critical of the system - with the majority saying it is impacting on their child's mental health, education and family's finances, according to the joint statement from the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and the children's charity I CAN.
Their verdict on the SEND reform that came into force in the Children and Families Act (2014) is that a central purpose of the reforms - to make the system less adversarial - has not been fulfilled.
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