City council official says transmission system is 'broken'

The council's executive director for children's services said the Special Educational Support and Disability Support Scheme (Send) system “feels quite broken”.

North Northamptonshire Councilor Carisi Monero told the Schools Forum, a group that meets to discuss education issues, that the government needed to take “significant work”.

“We are saying we are in a crisis situation,” she said, according to the newspaper. Local Democracy Reporting Service.

A Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said: “For too long children and young people in Send have been let down by a system that is not working, but the Government is determined to bring about change.” Ta.

The council said school funding budgets were under pressure due to increased demand from families for education, health and care plans (EHCP) for their children.

Monero said at the forum: Stream on YouTubesaid it had “missed an important opportunity” to “get the basics right”.

“Everything we're doing at the moment is very reactionary and very legalistic,” she said.

“The transmission system as a whole feels pretty broken at the moment and there is important work that central government needs to do, but it will take a long time.

“So if you can lobby now and leverage that, I think you should do it.”

The council's deputy director for inclusion, David Pace, said there was a projected £25m shortfall in school funding in the 2024-2025 financial year and the council was at risk of “bankruptcy” if changes were not made. He said that there is a sex.

“We can build our own systems correctly, but the demand far exceeds our budget.

“If we all continue to operate the way we are, we will go bankrupt,” he said.

“This has very serious implications for everyone, but most importantly for young children, who are systematically underserved despite everyone's best intentions.” is.

“We need to operate differently, and that requires coming together as a group.”

A DfE spokesperson added: “We are urgently working to ensure that more children receive better support for their educational progress in their early years through curriculum and assessment reviews, Ofsted reform and new starter placement training. Efforts are already underway,” he added.

“We continue to work as quickly as possible to give every child the best start in life.”