{"id":180542,"date":"2025-06-13T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180542\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:47:10","slug":"warning-for-millions-of-households-in-england-who-have-send-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180542\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning for millions of households in England who have SEND children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local authorities and councils in England have warned mums and dads over a multi-billion pound deficit from years of overspending on special educational needs.\"LocalLocal authorities and councils in England have warned mums and dads over a multi-billion pound deficit from years of overspending on special educational needs.<\/p>\n

A warning has been issued for millions of UK households who have SEND children. Local authorities and councils in England have warned mums and dads over a multi-billion pound deficit from years of overspending on special educational needs.<\/p>\n

The SEND deficit has become a \u201cburning platform\u201d that will push scores of councils into bankruptcy within months, they warn. There is a growing discrepancy between the amount councils and local authorities need, and what they are being given by the Labour Party<\/a> government.<\/p>\n

And the number of parents bringing cases to tribunal after councils refused SEND support for their children continues to skyrocket. Worryingly, the Spending Review did not address SEND debts.<\/p>\n

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Tim Oliver, chair of the County Councils Network, said: \u201cThe mounting Send service deficits are the burning platform for many local authorities yet there was no resolution in the spending review.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now nine months away from a financial cliff edge when these multi-billion deficits are placed on to councils\u2019 budget books, potentially rendering half of England\u2019s county and unitary councils insolvent overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (Cipfa) said: \u201cThe government continues to leave local authorities in the dark about the future of the Send system and their financial sustainability.<\/p>\n

“By the time ministers provide clarity on the statutory override councils will already be well into their budget-setting processes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless the government tells us very soon [how it will deal with historic send deficits] we are going to have to issue a section 114 notice (a formal declaration of effective bankruptcy),\u201d said Mike Cox, BCP cabinet member for finance.<\/p>\n

Penny Carpenter, cabinet member for children\u2019s services at Norfolk county council, said: \u201cThe lack of clarity and assurance from on future funding is deeply frustrating.<\/p>\n

“The current financial pressures are unsustainable and severely hinder our ability to plan effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local authorities and councils in England have warned mums and dads over a multi-billion pound deficit from years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-180542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114674954635245136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}