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CON-DEM cuts are depriving children with special needs and learning difficulties of access to a decent education, teachers warned yesterday.
While public schools for the wealthy elite receive tax-breaks through charitable status, youngsters in need of specialist attention in state schools are being made to suffer.
Delegates representing almost 300,000 teachers in union NASUWT heard that austerity, budget cuts and moving the goalposts on special needs funding, along with a failure to invest in the schools workforce, have resulted in cuts to support, funding and resources.
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities