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Fighting for an Education

As most children in England return to their classrooms, reporter Sean Dilley investigates the system for supporting young people with special educational needs.

For any parent, making sure a child gets the best schooling is often a worry, but when your child has complex special educational needs and disabilities, it can cause real anxiety. As most children in England return to their classrooms, reporter Sean Dilley investigates the system for supporting young people with special educational needs. He meets families who, during lockdown, struggled without any support at all, and now, as their children head back to school, fear they may not get the right support to help them learn and stay safe in their classrooms. Sean discovers an adversarial system that was supposed to put the needs of children at its heart, but instead has created what some call ‘a treacle of bureaucracy’ for parents to navigate.

29 minutes

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Role Contributor
Reporter Sean Dilley
Director Chris Hardy
Producer Chris Hardy
Executive Producer Simon Barnes
Executive Producer Lucie Kon
Editor Rachel Jupp

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