May 13, 2019, Bucks Herald: Special Education Needs Parents march to highlight council and Government's failures https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/special-education-needs-parents-march-to-highlight-council-and-government-s-failures-1-8924222 Disgruntled parents are fed up with a 'broken system' and are organising a UK-wide march to protest Government's failings of Special Educational Needs children. On May 30 there will be marches/rallies taking place across England and north Wales, with the largest in London. … …Katherine Watts, who is protesting the failures of government said: "The whole system is completely broken and corrupt. Parents and carers are so tired and fed up of the constant fight it takes just to get Local Authorities to provide the correct support needed for their children. "It's an incredible struggle just to get local authorities to produce a suitable Education Health and Care plan."… "A lot of parents end up completely broken and some even give up. We feel we have no other action now but to protest and make our voices heard by Local Authorities and the Government." Protesters want change now. They see the principle problems in the chronic under-funding of Local Authorities that has created a situation where SEND service[s] are stretched so thin, they cannot keep up with demand…. The activists claim that some children are waiting years for the appropriate levels of support, with some unable to get a diagnosis or a needs assessment….
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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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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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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