Just bumped into a written answer from last week on school exclusions: the latest figures show that 67% of permanent exclusions last year were of children with Special Educational Needs. The highest it’s been in the 6 years for which the government has provided figures.
It would seem that the SEN system is even less fit for purpose than it was 18 months ago.
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It is not surprising that there is further decline in the education offered to children with SEN ; teachers are not trained and are far to busy coping with 30 in a class.
To get a statement we are expected to jump through hoops CAF assessments and what for in the end?
We feel it would be far better to just home educate if our child is not happy in main stream school.