Jan 21, 2020, Children and Young People Now: THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN WITH SEND 'NOT ENROLLED IN SCHOOL' https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/thousands-of-children-with-send-not-enrolled-in-school The inspectorate's annual report states that 3,500 children were still waiting for a place at the setting specified in their education, health and care plan (EHC) on 31 March 2019. Of these, 2,700 were not registered in an alternative school or provision, the report adds. Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman branded these figures “concerning” and noted the number of children subject to an EHC plan has increased by 47 per cent over the last four years, rising from 240,000 in January 2015 to 354,000 in January 2019. In the same month, there were more than 1.3 million school-age pupils with SEND, 15 per cent of all pupils on roll in schools. Of these, just over one million pupils were receiving SEN support and 270,000 pupils had an EHC plan. • Commissioning: Rethinking SEND support The report also raised concerns over the number of children with SEND excluded, temporarily or permanently, from state-funded primary or secondary schools. Pupils with SEND accounted for more than 178,000 (43 per cent) of fixed-term and nearly 3,600 (45 per cent) of permanent exclusions in 2017/18. “The primary need for just over half of pupils with SEND at the time of exclusion was recorded as social, emotional and mental health, despite this being only the third most prevalent primary need,” the report states. More than 5,500 pupils with SEND left their school between years 10 and 11, the inspectorate says, adding “some of them may have been off-rolled”…. Responding to the report, Jolanta Lasota, chief executive of Ambitious about Autism, said: “Pupils with special educational needs, including autism, are much more likely to be permanently excluded from school and teachers also admit that these vulnerable young people are more likely to be affected by off-rolling. … “It’s clear that problems for special educational needs pupils are getting worse, not better, and we need decisive action to reverse this trend. This includes funding that ensures all children’s needs can be met and better autism training for all school staff to support these pupils. …
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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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