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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Richard Adams Education editor

MYSTERIOUS: Different thinking needed on send funding phillipson says - What They Never Told You

Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing Street to attend the weekly cabinet meeting.
Bridget Phillipson spoke to the Association of School and College Leaders annual conference in Liverpool. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Rex/Shutterstock

Parents will need to “think very differently” about government funding for children with special educational needs, the education secretary has said, as school leaders say the current system is on the brink of collapse.

Speaking to the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) annual conference in Liverpool, Bridget Phillipson said the 2014 Children and Families Act needed to be changed to reform the current system in England that was driving local authorities towards insolvency.

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