SEND - children’s needs to be reassessed from year 6 2029?

https://www.local.gov.uk/about/campaigns/save-local-services/save-local-services-how-ps1-council-funding-spent

Must admit, I'm at a bit of a loss. EHCPs were introduced in 2014, at the same time as the SEN Code of Practice. Both were designed to meet the needs of austerity.

I do not understand why parents keep arguing for an austerity approach to education. And this isn't spin. You can look up the dates.

Plus it's completely irrelevant. Port Talbot is in wales who have their own legislation around send and education. The white paper applies to England.

Taking parents to tribunal is costly, and most of the time the LA does it to either hope parents wont fight or to delay.

I do agree that some APs and some independent provisions need to be tighter controlled regarding cost and making sure they are supplying what they should.

But I do feel this is kicking the can further down the street, and if people are up in arms regarding there non sen children being disrupted by sen children this is going to get worse.
And the inclusion the government is wanting will not be inclusive for any child.

Perhaps you missed the post where I said “If you take the government at their word (yes, I know!) then they say they will be spending more. Reality may be very different, of course, but that isn’t what I commented on. I commented on what the government has said since we were discussing the publications released today.” Or maybe you just ignored it. I know reality is often different to what is said. My point was about what had been said.

If the government want individual teachers to teach classes of 30 including very high need children on their own, they need to relax the pressures on mainstream classes-curriculum, testing and Ofsted, otherwise those teachers will just break.

That's called spin.

That is not what the government said. The government said spending will increase.

"You can fake nonchalance but 38% is staggeringly high given the majority of it will go on SEN. It’s too high."

You have provided no evidence that the majority goes on SEN funding.

The spending they’ve announced is less than the savings they’ll make by making EHCPs and specialist provision far more inaccessible.

Who said that? Can you quote?

Probably because nazi bigot (in your words, not mine) is a pretty accurate description for someone who at worst is advocating for the removal of a certain subset of society with eugenics and at best, advocating for removal of all support for that subset.

I think a more common outcome is that children don't receive the support or interventions they need and leave school without the skills or qualifications they need for any pathway and with the entrenched belief that they are stupid and useless.

The announcements today are just about cost savings. Same as when DLA was replaced with PIP and people were re-assessed and left without support.

If you take the government at their word (yes, I know!) then they say they will be spending more. Reality may be very different, of course, but that isn’t what I commented on. I commented on what the government has said since we were discussing the publications released today.

No not freelancing most Architects work in an office within a team except for maybe those who do small scale stuff. That’s not us
dh specialism is education bldgs
and mine historic and religious buildings and offices.

Do you think this is in the long term
a) a cost cutting exercise or
b) a spending exercise?

No, I haven’t.

This strikes me as a profound misdirection of limited resources.

An education system works best when it recognises differences in aptitude and builds pathways that suit them. If you concentrate the bulk of time, money and specialist expertise on trying to push every student toward the same narrow academic outcome, you risk distorting the entire purpose of schooling.

From what I’ve seen in my own family, the pattern can be this: vast support is mobilised to help students with significant additional needs achieve broadly average academic results. Those results then open the door to university — often at considerable financial cost — and into knowledge-based careers that may not align with their natural strengths. The long-term outcome can be stress, debt and a persistent sense of being in the wrong lane.

Behind it all is a particular worldview — common in parts of professional middle-class Britain — that the country should be overwhelmingly service-driven and that academic, white-collar work is the default aspiration for everyone. But not every young person is best served by being channelled into that mould. A healthier system would value and invest equally in technical, vocational and practical routes, rather than assuming one pathway fits all.

There’s no definitive test for PDA. It’s based on behaviours - the same behaviours caused by a lack of boundaries

Oh you have no idea. I haven’t seen your tv program, but at 6 years old my DD would have eaten your boundaries for breakfast. Including those that kept her safe, her siblings safe, her home intact and her own body to keep functioning.

As a teen she’s now thriving on an EOTAS package, the first provision of which was equine therapy. She could teach you a lot @Playingvideogames

It didn’t
mainly because ( we believe) the local council decided he should go to a different school. We disagreed, with very good reason and found a school that fitted all our children

We were the carers and were fine with taking responsibility for getting our kids to school

I think you’ve hugely misunderstood the entire exercise.

No, it isn’t. The law did not change today. No legal obligations have been reduced or removed by the publishing of the white paper. It is important all parents and professionals understand this. The current law still applies and can still be enforced. Many proposals in white papers do not go on to be included in legislation.

Even if they are, it will take years for it to come into force and then for the transition to be complete. Just like it took years for the switch to EHCPs from SSEN to happen.

The government has said their plans will mean spending more. They have also said they “expect the number of children and young people needing a Specialist Provision Package, and hence an EHCP to access support, will return to around today’s level by 2035.” So, not reducing numbers compared to now, especially when you consider it as a percentage since the birth rate if falling.