Yet another year goes by and there aren’t enough school places for children with additional needs. This year parents held a 24-hour sleep-out at the Department of Education to demand action on the lack of special education places.
It’s the same sorry story and the same sorry excuses year after year. I know most of these parents will take whatever place they can get but I listened to an excellent piece on Virgin Media TV where the parent emphasised she was interested in an APPROPRIATE school place, not just a school place. I don’t think the government can achieve this despite over a decade of continuing to neglect children.