The minister for community care Stephen Ladyman was dealing with the fall-out after Prime Minister Tony Blair was confronted on live television by the mother of an autistic child.
Ladyman said the Government believed that most children with special needs would be better off in mainstream schools that had the right levels of support. But he conceded that too often children were being put into mainstream schools without the correct support and expected to adapt to the environment.
"The school needs to adapt to the child and that's entirely what the Government is trying to encourage and what local education authorities should be working towards," he said.
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