Jan 31, 2019, The Star: Millions could be diverted to help ease growing demand for specialist education in Rotherham https://www.thestar.co.uk/our-towns-and-cities/rotherham/millions-could-be-diverted-to-help-ease-growing-demand-for-specialist-education-in-rotherham-1-9567898 Permission is being sought by education chiefs in Rotherham to divert £2.7m [$3.5M US dollars] from the town’s mainstream education budget to help prop-up the work done to support children with special educational needs as demand for those services grows. … The £2.7m identified as needed in Rotherham accounts for 1.5 per cent of money allocated to schools, so can only happen if the Government gives its consent. Councillors on the authority’s ruling Cabinet have been told that money would be affordable from the regular schools budget and would give the council the flexibility to make changes to improve the services it offers. The objective in future is to keep more pupils with special needs in mainstream education where, it is believed, they will emerge with better prospects for life in the future. Demand for ‘high needs’ education has been increasing and while the full reasons for that remain unclear, one may be that Rotherham has made swift progress in recent years in identify pupils with complex demands and the working out the type of assistance which will best help them. … The council’s strategic director of children’s services, Jon Stonehouse, told councillors: “We are seeing greater levels of complexity within our children and young people nationally and locally. That is driving demand considerably. “Our understanding of children’s needs and identification of their needs is much more effective now than it has been before,” he said.
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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.
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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