Needs for change

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Hear, hear, Mr Lancaster. Some young children of four who do not wish to read and write and sit at a desk are being labelled as having special educational needs. Then suddenly, if they decide that they to want to read and write at age five, six or seven (if they have not been put off by then), they are proclaimed as not having special educational needs. Would somebody please tell education secretary Charles Clarke that it is the system that has the special needs, and not the children?