Families across the country have shared 1253 accounts exposing unlawful, harmful, or unethical behaviour by 134 local authorities.
Every major political party is represented among them — this is not about party politics, but about a system that is broken. Local accountability is being bypassed, and in places like Surrey, the truth has been buried. For over a year, the council concealed that it had the highest tribunal complaint rate in the country.
While councils face huge financial pressures around SEND, too often that pressure has translated into a culture of lying and treating children’s suffering as just another “problem to manage.” The result is a system that has become dishonest and brutalised.
If we reduce their SEND rights and throw our children to local authorities we cannot trust, we throw away their lives.
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Numerous families have reported that Surrey County Council have failed to secure their child’s Alternative Provision or EOTAS for the next academic year.
Litter was building up after Southern took away the bins.
I have written to the government, urging them to make time for a second reading for Christopher's Law.
The developer consortium has replied to my letters urging action.
I spoke during the debate of the Hillsborough Law, which would create a legal duty on public bodies to tell the truth.
I will be meeting with the government to help them get the closure they so desperately need.
