Through educational, health and care (EHC) plans the cost of support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is met by health services and from council social care and education budgets.
But at a House of Commons debate on SEND funding it emerged that health organisations are failing to meet the bill for all health support, which is instead having to be paid for through education budgets.
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable revealed that some health services are declining to even pay for wheelchairs, which are being treated as an educational cost.
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