Nov 23, 2019, (UK) Hambleton Today: Mainstream schools budgets set to be top sliced to pay for high needs pupils http://www.hambletontoday.co.uk/mainstream-schools-budgets-set-to-be-top-sliced-to-pay-for-high-needs-pupils/ North Yorkshire County Council looks set to ask the Government to allow it to “top slice” mainstream schools’ budgets to cover the spiralling costs of educating high needs pupils, despite mainstream headteachers saying the move would create issues. The authority’s leaders will consider the action after being warned the authority is facing a deficit on its special educational needs budget of £7m [$9M US] by April and up to another £6m [$7.7M] the following year…. In a consultation with the council, mainstream schools insisted their budgets were already overstretched and they could not afford to subsidise the high needs budget as they had agreed to in recent years…. Another headteacher stated school budgets were already sharing the financial impact of increased numbers of students with Education, Health and Care Plans. She added: “We acknowledge the pressure on the High Needs block, but believe that this should not be resolved by top slicing school budgets.” It states the recently announced 11.1 per cent high needs funding increase for 2020-21 amounted to about £5.4m extra, but the increase did not address the forecast budget pressures for the next financial year. The report states there has been a 68 per cent increase in students classed as having high needs since 2014 and continued growth was expected in 2020. It states: … He said: “While the high needs demand keeps increasing we are trying to contain it. We don’t want to be taking money off mainstream schools, but we don’t have much of a choice. “I appreciate their situation with tight budgets, but we are in a no-win situation having to address the special educational needs demand.”…
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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).
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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.
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