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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

Children with special needs in England will keep current support, minister says

Georgia Gould photographed at the Cabinet Office in July 2024
Georgia Gould: ‘I don’t blame any parent who’s fighting for their child, I would do the same.’ Photograph: Anna Gordon/The Guardian

Children with special needs will not lose their places at special schools or current levels of assistance, an education minister has told parents anxious that the government would strip away their child’s support.

Facing questions at an online forum, part of the Department for Education’s (DfE) “national conversation” on changing special needs provision in England, Georgia Gould said: “No child is going to be asked to leave the school that they’re in. So I just want to give that reassurance.”

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