While the SEN green paper, published today (9 March), has been broadly welcomed as a positive step towards improving the lives of children with disabilities and SEN, experts have called for the government to allow for sufficient resources to implement the reforms.
Campaigners have also said the government’s aspirations for children with SEN could falter because of a lack of funding and cuts to specialist services.
Campaign group Every Disabled Child Matters said: "The green paper is not clear about where responsibility lies to ensure that a joined-up package of support is delivered for disabled children and their families.
"There is no clear indication of the way that statutory services will be held to account if they do not deliver, and how families with disabled children can seek redress if they do not receive the support they need to lead ordinary lives. This implies that the onus will remain on families to fight to ensure they get support."
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