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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sally Weale Education correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Send crisis in england risks creating lost generation of children | History Defined

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said too many families are struggling to access the help their children with Send ‘desperately need’.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said too many families are struggling to access the help their children with Send ‘desperately need’. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

The crisis in special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in England risks creating a “lost generation” of children, while putting “almost half” of all councils with an education remit in danger of bankruptcy within 15 months, parliament’s spending watchdog has warned.

MPs on the public accounts committee (PAC) expressed frustration with the government’s lack of progress in resolving the crisis, and complained their inquiry had found “no sense of urgency” among officials.

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