Baroness Warnock has angered many in the sector with the publication of a damning report in which she calls for a fundamental rethinking of the policy of inclusion at the same time as attacking special schools.
Lady Warnock says the inclusion agenda has had a "disastrous legacy" but also says that special schools are "regarded as little more than places of containment, hospitals, or day centres, but with better educational facilities".
And she says that statementing has "turned out to be not a very bright idea" and condemns the present system as "both needlessly bureaucratic and liable to cause bad blood between parents, schools and local authorities".
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