Chris calls out conspiracy of silence on SEND

Yesterday I spoke during the debate of the Hillsborough Law, which would create a legal duty on public bodies to tell the truth. The government is finally listening to Hillsborough victim’s families. It is galling that there continues to be a conspiracy of silence on SEND misconduct. I have given the government evidence that potentially hundreds of SEND children are avoidably killing themselves due to public authority negligence and misconduct, including my constituent Jen Bridges-Chalkley aged 17. Appallingly we don’t even know how many avoidable child suicides there are because there is no national preventable death tracker.