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An education minister has refused to guarantee that children with special needs will continue to receive their current guaranteed education provisions under current plans to reform the SEND system. Labour MPs are feeling rebellious…

After Phillipson failed to make guarantees yesterday to not scrap education, health and care plans (EHCPs), which force authorities to provide a level of service for children with special needs, early years minister Stephen Morgan was needled on Times Radio on proposals to alter them. Costs of £11 billion per year currently…

Morgan gave no guarantee despite being pressed:

Well of course we want to make sure that every child gets the support that they need. That’s why we’re doing the wider reform and we’re publishing the white paper later this year… We’re looking at the system in the round. I’m not going to get into the specifics today in terms of what it might mean going forward but we’ve got to be really honest with parents, they will also recognise this system is not working.

The government plans to cut costs from the EHCP system and redirect the cash to schools. The white paper on proposals is scheduled for October. Charities are already sounding the alarm and with them come the backbenchers…

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