Families across the country have shared 653 accounts exposing unlawful, harmful, or unethical behaviour by 117 local authorities.
Every major political party is represented among them — this is not about party politics, but about a system that is broken. Local accountability is being bypassed, and in places like Surrey, the truth has been buried. For over a year, the council concealed that it had the highest tribunal complaint rate in the country.
While councils face huge financial pressures around SEND, too often that pressure has translated into a culture of lying and treating children’s suffering as just another “problem to manage.” The result is a system that has become dishonest and brutalised.
If we reduce their SEND rights and throw our children to local authorities we cannot trust, we throw away their lives.
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Lenka relies on strangers to help her carry her buggy to the platform because there is no step free access.
I met with the Managing Director of South Western Railway.
I met with SES to see their progress on fixing the tower.
I asked Keir Starmer at PMQs to support changes to the Mental Capacity Act.
Thames Water poured raw sewage into the Rover Mole for thousands of hours in January.
Trigger warning: suicide
