Families across the country have shared 653 accounts exposing unlawful, harmful, or unethical behaviour by 117 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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In a difficult speech today, Chris called for immediate reform of Surrey County Council's Children, Families, and Lifelong Learning department following its catastrophic and systemic negligence in the tragic deaths of 3 Surrey children
After heavy rainfall made raw sewage flood the homes of my constituents in Horley , I asked the Flooding Minister to meet with me.
Mould, damp, and collapsing ceilings—this is the shocking reality for too many Clarion residents in our area.
Last night Chris was on national ITV news speaking about the SEN education crisis
Chris praises work of local campaigners in holding UKOG to account.
Last night Chris was on Ian Dale’s LBC show talking about the national crisis in special needs provision and what a better special needs education system might look like.
