June 18, 2019, Rugby Advertiser: Schools in Warwickshire face £9m [$11M US] funding shortfall in special educational needs budget https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/schools-in-warwickshire-face-9m-funding-shortfall-in-special-educational-needs-budget-1-8965888 Schools in Warwickshire face a £9 million [$11M US dollars] funding shortfall in their special educational needs budget, according to the country’s largest education union. The Government said it had increased funding since 2015, from £5 billion to £6.3 billion, following demonstrations by parents of children with special educational needs in May. But the National Education Union says this does not take into account the increase in pupils that schools have to provide for, estimating they now face a funding shortfall of at least £1.2 billion. Children and young people aged up to 25 who are assessed as having special educational needs are given an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan by their local authority. In January 2015, there were 2,785 youngsters in Warwickshire with either an EHC plan or their predecessors, which were known as statements of special educational needs. The budget for high needs pupils in 2015-16 stood at £57.4 million in today’s terms, adjusted for inflation – the equivalent of £21,044 per pupil. In 2018-19, the budget had only increased by four per cent, but the number of pupils needing support had gone up by 26 per cent, to 3,509…. Since then, the number of children with an EHC plan has gone up by ten per cent, reaching 3,848 in January 2019. Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU, said: “This is clearly a crisis, with pupils and parents bearing the brunt of real-terms funding cuts and the wholly inadequate planning by Government. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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