03/10/2026
Hello everyone, we're asking for your help. Just 2 minutes. 🙏
There are some life changing reforms being proposed by Government that will impact every child with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The White Paper shows that children's and parents' rights will be reduced - the most staggering of all, the right to go to a tribunal will be removed.
Many parents and carers we know have had to take their local authority to a SEND tribunal to get the Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) that their children need and are entitled to.
However, if the government has its way there will be no recourse to tribunal.
Imagine if your neuro-different child needed to ‘fit’ into one of seven categories to determine their school placement and provision.
Imagine the same child having no say in anything to do with their education, and having to tell them that despite loving them to the moon and back again you're unable to get appropriate support for them when they need it to improve their prospects and protect their future because of a system that claims to use a strengths based approach to promote independence, but doesn't in reality.
The innocent children who become victims of its proposed scheme will be deprived of happier, healthier and more productive lives simply because they were unlucky enough to be born with differences that make them square pegs in "the system's" round holes.
Who will proactively provide appropriate Advocacy and support to the victims as they get older, and to their exhausted parents and carers when they eventually run out of energy to fight for justice or pass away?
If you are able to add your signature to this petition for the reforms to be debated I would be most grateful.
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I believe that the Government’s proposed SEND reforms could limit EHCPs, weaken legal rights, replace individual plans with packages, reduce appeals, and remove school choice. In my view, children could be left without the support they need as a result.
