Chris writes to Education Secretary following council officer misconduct revelation

The Education Secretary has described the sickening revelations from a SEND local authority whistleblower broadcast by ITV as “completely unacceptable”. Yet I have supplied her with similar evidence of widespread local authority misconduct, some possibly criminal, for over a year. To my knowledge no one has been fired or held accountable. I have also given her evidence of an epidemic of avoidable SEND child suicide caused by public authority negligence, including by some of these same local authorities. I expect further sickening revelations in the national media in the coming months. It is now morally indefensible for the government to proceed with reducing children’s legal protections in favour of these local authorities. I have written again to the Ed Sec. Further inaction risks the government being complicit.