Jenny Ravenhill, principal psychologist at the National Autistic Society's Radlett Lodge school
What's the biggest way that having a high profile in the election might hurt children? Politicians focusing on children with renewed enthusiasm to tinker, meddle and interfere with existing arrangements in the mistaken belief that this will solve all problems.
What is Labour's greatest achievement?
Greater funding for schools.
What is Labour's biggest missed opportunity? Failing to undertake a thorough countrywide evaluation of the inclusion of pupils with significant special needs into mainstream schools.
Phil Street, chief executive, ContinYou
If you were Prime Minister, what single thing would you do immediately?
Introduce a second delegated budget to schools, based on pupil numbers and weighted by social indicators, which had to be spent on pursuing the five outcomes in Every Child Matters.
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