It is easy to get angry, and I think that is a totally natural and fair response but actually taking the statements at face value and pushing back on them in a realistic and questioning way is helpful, I think.
I think people have no idea. Imagine the privilege that you have to have in order to get into that position. You know that these councillors have no direct experience of SEN. You know what the general public opinion is on SEN provision (just look at some of the replies on this thread).
If you are looking at making changes, justifying spending etc then these are really important conversations to have - I honestly believe the costs of underfunding these resources will have such a gigantic and far-reaching ripple effect. It is imperative that people understand and do not dismiss responses as being borne of irrationality, anger at not getting their own way etc.
For example, Cllr. Hammersley assumes that institutions "had better ways of dealing with children" - I don't know if this is a deliberate effort to shut down conversation, whether he thinks out of sight out of mind is fine, or whether he genuinely believes that disabled and ND children were having a lovely time living their best lives in institutions (!)
There are countries now in the world where children with mild LD are institutionalised. There are adults with living memory of going to these schools - it's not difficult to find the info. If people genuinely don't know, show them.
Also, I am fairly sure that institutional care is a lot more expensive than whatever he is objecting to anyway. He seems to be basing this "let's see the root of the need" on the idea that the "need" has expanded unreasonably (so he means, let's see the root of the expansion). It DOES seem like the spending has gone up from the figures he quoted - no idea if this is taken out of context - but looking at why costs have gone up and what costs have gone up would probably be useful.
Mr. Minns explains (Cllr. Hammersley seemed to miss this) that the need actually has not increased - the need is actually currently lower than stated in the Warnock report which is 45 years old. He's talking about the expansion of a need and looking at why needs have expanded so much, suggesting that we could stop it expanding and therefore stop costs going up,
Cllr. Morgan suggests that many children being diagnosed with ADHD "are just badly behaved" - but does he know that one of the most effective and, incidentally, underfunded, treatment options for ADHD is parent training - parenting classes, giving parents more effective (which BTW doesn't mean harsher) discipline techniques. In fact you could probably fund this for everyone who wants it, since it causes no harm to children who don't have ADHD, and only refer on the children whose parents find that it is not effective enough. Indeed, parents who are already proactive about their children's needs are frequently exasperated to be offered a parenting class at the end of a years-long waiting list which contains things they have frequently already tried. Why not offer that as a first resort, that ought to screen out "children who are just badly behaved" and maybe also offer something useful to the children who are not (even if ultimately they need other supports as well).
I have to go and pick up DS2 but I will watch the rest and respond in a bit.
It is very interesting the contrast between this meeting and the Warwickshire SEND FB page - you can see people commenting on there in frustration quite regularly. I wonder whether they will address this footage.