Special education needs and disabilities (Send) have lost confidence

Families of children with special education needs and disabilities (Send) have lost confidence in a system that "often falls short" and is failing to improve children’s outcomes, the public spending watchdog says.

Despite funding rising by 58% over the past decade to £10.7bn, the system is financially “unsustainable” and “in urgent need of reform”, the National Audit Office (NAO) warns.

There are an estimated 1.7 million children with special education needs in schools in England.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Schools Minister Catherine McKinnell said reform will be “huge and complex” and will come “in due course”.

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