Champagne is not a regular feature at special educational needs regionalpartnership meetings, but last week's gatherings were something of anexception. Celebrations broke out across the 11 partnerships as wordfiltered through that they would be around for another two years afterall. "It's such good news," enthused one local co-ordinator. "We havebeen inundated with messages of good cheer."
The Department for Education and Skills' decision to continue providingthe special educational needs regional partnerships with 2.125m ayear (Children Now, 23-29 November) is a massive source of relief to allinvolved.
Despite some clear signs of progress, ministers had previously refusedto make a firm funding commitment and senior figures at the partnershipswere starting to fear the worst (Children Now, 19-25 October).
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