many can fall back on HE, which is not such a dreadful outcome
In the course of my research in the stats on PMLD, one of the interesting facets was the distribution of severe and profound learning disability within the population. It is more common in deprived communities. Severe learning difficulties are most common in Traveller and Romany/Gypsy families, and PMLD actually most common in a small number of relatively enclosed ethnic groups. One of the things that struck me, given the focus on HE for SEN children in this thread, is to what extent the nature of the parent group of such severely disabled children, given the particular socio-economic mix, would be able to provide effective HE for the children?
As in, HE may be a better and more viable option for some particular SEN, both because of the nature of the SEN and because of the nature of the parent group in which that SEN perhaps more typically arises (or because that SEN arises randomly, and thus the parent population is representative of society as a whole, so there is no specific bias towards 'those capable / less capable of delivering high quality HE'). However, for other SEN, both the nature of the SEN and the nature of the parent group may affect the viability and quality of HE?
that's a really sensitive discussion, I appreciate, because of course within any community there will be those capable of home educating well, as no group is homogenous. However, even if we look specifically at economic deprivation, rather than any dimension concerned with ethnic group, it is obviously harder for a parent from very deprived circumstances to effectively home -educate a child who, simply due to the nature of their SEN, requires a very large amount of specialist equipment for their care and education.