Rejected petition Create more specialist school placements for SEND Children.
My son is five. He is diagnosed with nonverbal autism, a chromosome deletion disorder, SPD, a brain malformation, PICA, he wears nappies full time and requires 1-2-1 supervision. Despite this my son is being educated in a mainstream school who cannot meet his needs. This is due to a severe shortage of Specialist placements for SEND children across the UK. The system is at crisis level and this Government should be held to account for the educational failure of hundreds of children like mine.
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The NHS, his current school and Flintshire County Council agree he needs SEND provision and have even being looking outside of County, at ten placements in total to find him a space. Yet we are still waiting. In their own words they are ‘continuing their best efforts to try and source a placement for him against a demanding national picture for ASD provison.’ In the meantime my son is distressed, struggling and not being given anywhere near the standard of education he deserves. How is this acceptable? Why are we not seeing National outrage about the treatment of our family and the hundreds of other families just like ours?
I know so many parents broken by a system that feels designed to deprive our disabled children of their fundamental rights. Please add your name to this petition and help these parents secure the educational provision their children desperately need. Thank you.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.
The Petitions Committee has recently considered a petition on this issue:
Fund more specialist school places and staff for children with additional learning needs in Wales
Details of the Committee’s previous consideration of this issue can be found here:
https://business.senedd.wales/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=41407&Opt=3
The Children, Young People and Education Committee is conducting an inquiry into disabled children and young people’s access to childcare and education and the extent to which childcare providers, schools and local authorities meet their duties under the Equality Act 2010.
To find out more about the inquiry and how to share your views go to:
https://business.senedd.wales/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=40923
This consultation closes on 29 September 2023.
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