The damning report, A statement is not enough, found that large swathes of children are being offered extra support for SEN when all they really need is better quality teaching.
The wide-ranging review also uncovered massive inequalities in the way that pupils’ needs are assessed and met, both between and within local authority areas.
Children with similar needs were frequently identified as requiring different levels of additional support, and more articulate middle-class parents were more likely than disadvantaged families to secure support for their children.
Across education, health and social care services, the various approaches to identifying needs and the different thresholds for intervention were found to hamper joint working, confuse parents and lead to weak and inconsistent plans for supporting children and young people.
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