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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This week I met with the Coroner’s Minister, Alex Davies-Jones MP and Dr Georgia Richards (Founder, Preventable Deaths Tracker).
An aspiring GP from Westcott left university £44,000 in debt in 2017.
OBR forecasts are five years, by contrast in the US, it's a minimum of ten.
The government agreed with me on this.
I brought people's complaints to the CEO of Royal Mail.
I asked the Chancellor if the government have learnt from previous mistakes.
