Sept 2, 2020, Harborough Mail: Support set to be improved up for hundreds of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) across Leicestershire https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/education/support-set-be-improved-hundreds-children-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-send-across-leicestershire-2959692 Central England Support is set to be improved for hundreds of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) across Leicestershire. Leicestershire County Council said it is moving to urgently improve services for families with a child, or children, with SEND in Harborough as well as the rest of the county…. Cllr Deborah Taylor, the county council’s cabinet member for children and families, said: “It is vitally important that we support our SEND families in the best ways we can. “We have already committed to investing £30 million [$40M U.S.] into establishing new specialist schools and enhanced resource bases in some of our existing schools….
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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
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