So the costs for children with special provision via SEND in mainstream schools has massively increased in the number of children increasing massively without a real increase in funding to match, and a multiple decade long reduction in specialist schools.

You sometimes see utter garbage peddled that specialist schools shouldn’t exist and that children should be moved into mainstream schooling, often from parents of non verbal or otherwise potentially violent (due to SEND needs) children. Try teaching a mainstream school class with half with what should be specialist school needs and half not with at most one single classroom assistant despite each SEND child having “funding” for one each, its impossible. Its also a significant cause of teachers leaving state schooling, so its actually costing us signifcant money to replace.

Until significantly more money is found and invested in more specialist schools and parents forced to send their children there were appropriate, we have no hope in hell in improving state school results.

But sure, Reform just want to cut the funding, it would be a total collapse on a system thats already headed that way.