Aug 20, 2019, Yorkshire Post: 'Mainstream schools don't have the time and resources for children with special educational needs due to lack of funding', says Yorkshire mother https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/mainstream-schools-don-t-have-the-time-and-resources-for-children-with-special-educational-needs-due-to-lack-of-funding-says-yorkshire-mother-1-9944925 Sally Ellis’s son George, 11, from North Yorkshire, has learning disabilities. George went to a mainstream primary and had an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which set out the support he needed. He is currently attending a special school in the county. Miss Ellis, 35, said: “The school system in this country is vastly underfunded. “I found the ECHP system very unhelpful. The Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) told me ‘there isn’t any money’. "The Special Educational Needs and Disability Information and Advice Service (SENDIAS) explained the school hadn’t followed the correct processes. "It feels like the whole process is about the Government giving as little as possible to the individual instead of a child-centred approach. “It took me three years to battle for an EHCP at George's primary school and I have personally found it is actually quite difficult to get a place in a special school. “I basically think mainstream schools don’t have the time and resources for SEN children because they don’t have adequate funding.”
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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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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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