Jan 1, 2020, Yorkshire Northern Echo: Special schools benefit from £2million [$2.6M US] to improve facilities https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northyorkshire/18132983.special-schools-benefit-2million-improve-facilities/ Mowbray School in Bedale and The Dales School in Morton-on-Swale are among a handful to benefit from funding to make improvements. The Forest School in Knaresborough was awarded £1.1m [$1.4M US] from North Yorkshire County Council’s Schools’ Condition Grant which has been used to create an extension, classrooms with breakout spaces and a hygiene room. It means the schools can now accommodate up to 25 new places. Internal remodelling of some of the rooms within the main school building have created a range of specialist facilities including a SaLT (Speech and Language Therapy) room, medical room and physiotherapy room. Headteacher Michelle Farr said: “We are delighted with the result of the programme of expansion and reconfiguration…. Over three years between 2018 and 2021, the County Council is allocating £849,000 [$1.1M US] from the Department for Education's (DfE) Special Provision Capital Fund. Mowbray School has developed satellite provision with £374,000 [$500K US] of the funding on the site of the former Moorside Infant School in Ripon which is to open in January. It will begin by offering up to 20 places rising to 40 places from September 2021, with scope for 60 places in time. Another £218,000 [$288K US] of the grant has been used to create at least 24 more places, improve classrooms and hygiene areas, and build new classrooms at Springwater School in Harrogate, Springhead School in Scarborough, The Dales School and Brooklands Community Special School in Skipton.
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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.
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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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