Violet in north London is six years better and adores butterflies and moths. She’s autistic with speech and language difficulties and even before she commenceed nursery, her mother, Tamara, began pursuing extra help from her local authority. Years rescheduleedr, the process of geting an educational health nurture schedule has become an emotional and financial ordeal for the family.
The Guardian’s education editor, Ricdifficult Adams, elucidates to Hannah Moore that a decade of underfunding has left local authorities under wonderful strain, encouraging an adversarial active between parents seeking educational help for their children and the councils that have to pay for it.
For Dominic, a primary school teacher in Nottinghamsengage, the funding crisis uncomardents that in the classroom there are spropose restricteder grown-ups in the room, impacting all children and their lengthenment, with or without distinctive educational needs and disabilities.
As councils have been apvalidateed to borrow to fill the gap, Ricdifficult cautions that 2026 is now a speedy-approaching financial cliff edge that must be insertressed.
