‘Send Warrior Mums’: The parents fighting England’s schools crisis

From anxious children unable to cope with school to those with more complex, profound disabilities, England’s support for Send children is broken, with underfunded local authorities weaponising time in order to avoid legal obligations to support families and increasing numbers of parents unable to work, burnt out, judged and even suffering PTSD through attempting to navigate the system. The Guardian meets parents and children from across the country, to get a sense of the scale of the issue
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