The act has high ambitions for integrated care and a focus on better outcomes for children with special educational needs (SEN), but is landing in a context that could not be more difficult.
Changes in school funding and curriculum reform, the hated "bedroom tax" and the swingeing cuts to local authority funding will make the feelgood factor from the act difficult to detect.
The act's proposals strike at the heart of the challenges around children's disability issues. How do we actually deliver family-centred care, integrated around the needs of the family rather than the needs of professionals? Can we stop arguing about whether a child has a health or an education need when actually what we mean is who is going to pay for what? And what about the Holy Grail that is information? Can we finally deliver something that really meets needs.
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