MP's shocked by teen sen's plight

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17131686

how can they say they are shocked? It's not as if there aren't enough charities and individual parents begging for change. The attitude of this government & the media hasn't helped. They express suprise that 1/3 of teens with SEN's aren't in any education or training - frankly I'm just suprised the figure isn't higher.

This may encourage some people with older kids that at least their plight is being noticed "officially" at last.

Either way I'd love to get people's thoughts.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17131686

Depressing, isn't it.

It was inevitable that this would happen once funding was removed from the L&SC and hunded by to LAs.

My DS only started to get the specialist help he needed post-16 when the L&SC funded it. His LA had refused to fund the specailist placemnet he needed.

So Post-16 has now become the same struggle with LAs to get funding from them that the under 16s currently have with the LAs under the Statemneting process. A true post code lottery.

I thank God that my son received the support he required before the L&SC was disbanded. Id we'd had to rely on the LA he's still be spending every waking hour playing computer games and too stressed to come out of his bedroom instread of studying for an MSc.