The School Run from Hell: How Cuts and Chaos Are Leaving SEND Kids Stranded For most of us, the school run is a frantic blur of packed lunch and lost PE kits. But for thousands of parents of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), it has become a daily battle for their child’s right to an education. We are seeing a perfect storm of soaring costs, slashed services, and a government that seems to have forgotten that a child can’t learn if they can’t physically get to the classroom. Let’s be blunt: the system is broken. And if you have a child with SEND approaching their sixteenth birthday, you are about to walk off a cliff edge. The £145,000 Taxi Ride First, let’s look at the numbers, because they are staggering. The NAO reports that local authority spending on home-to-school transport has increased by 70% in real terms since 2015, hitting £2.3 billion in 2023-24 . You might think that money is going to a better service. You’d be wrong. The vast majo...
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