Agreed……if you are pushing a green agenda then surely this cap should have been renewed at the current level …it’s inevitable for me that fuel duty will go up, (yes that will have a knock on effect on funding the cap..but then VAT take goes up as well), so tie that in with selling the £2 cap being maintained?
This is about special needs children who aren't always getting the specialist support they need in state schools. Very, very different from the majority.
As I understand it a lot of SEND children that attend specialist independent schools, have a Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) and their places are funded by the local authority.
2024 was predicted to be a bit of a slow down in the construction industry anyway, if anything July / August figures have shown an optimistic upturn already.
www.pbctoday.co.uk
Yes, they should be local authority funded.
It's twice you've said that now.
Only children with a formal EHCP would be spared the rise – meaning 75% of children with special needs would miss out.
Agreed but seems not all are.
My son has SEN and attends a state school, If a child doesn't meet the criteria for EHCP then I am not sure you can make the case for them needing to attend a expensive specialist independent school.
I have no idea but only 25% currently would imply that this is not the norm, and I would guess that availability is regionally quite varied.
The bloke I replied to said it, which is why I started with that point. Bolded below.
The bit that clearly refers to fuel duty and road tax?
EHCP are awarded when a childs additional needs are holding them back in school and the educational setting is unable to provide enough support to meet those needs. If it is deemed that the state education provision is enough to support a childs needs, then there is no need for that child to be in a specialist educational setting. Over and above that it becomes a choice for parents to pay to send their children to private schools in the same way as it is for everyone else.
Indeed, and this will now become more expensive and beyond many.
It's not clear at all. Pay per mile surely refers to bus journeys. How would you honestly measure it in a car? Hand in your mileage??
Seems pretty clear to me that this was about driving not bus journeys.
Yes and it was too expensive for me to send my child with SEN to a specialist school. I suspect the use of SEN is cleverly being used to politicise this issue and keep it on the agenda, because most of the general public have little sympathy for the sob stories from people who lets face it are much better off even to be able to consider sending their children to a private school than the majority of the population.
I think everyone bar one probably thinks that
No - its about cars.