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

Jamie Oliver attacks Essex council for not recognising dyslexia as special need

Jamie Oliver and Alex Mahon sitting next to each other on stage next to a TV screen showing Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson (on screen), Jamie Oliver and the Channel 4 chief executive, Alex Mahon, at a screening of Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock for Channel Four

The celebrity chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver has said he is “disgusted” by his native county of Essex for not formally recognising dyslexia as a special educational need.

Discussing his new documentary on dyslexia, Oliver claimed Essex county council did not want “to spend the money” on young people diagnosed with dyslexia, a neurological learning difficulty affecting reading and writing.

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