Nursery World - SEND campaigers to hand the Prime Minister an invoice for £12m

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) campaigners are to march on Downing Street tomorrow with an invoice for Boris Johnson for £12 million – the amount required to plug the SEND funding crisis in Tower Hamlets.

SEND campaigners with the invoice for the Prime Minister Boris Johnson

The campaigners are marching on behalf of Tower Hamlets parents with children with SEND who are currently facing proposed cuts to Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP), top-up funding for schools and a 40 per cent reduction to the council’s support for learning service and behaviour team.

Tower Hamlets council put out proposals in July on changes to high needs SEND funding. It comes after the London borough closed the last of its council-run nurseries last year.

If the cuts go ahead, campaigners claim that the support for learning and service and the behaviour team will be unsustainable, leaving children with SEND without the essential support they need to ensure they can access their human right to an education.

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