What are the Send changes in England likely to cost and what are the hurdles?

There are 1.7 million children and young adults in the system and the many more are expected over the next decade to secure education, health and care plans. Photograph: James Jiao/Shutterstock

There is always an extra cost to delivering a tailored service, which is how Labour describes its new support system for school-age children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in England.

The Department for Education says it will ditch a “one size fits all” system – one that has “traumatised too many families” – in favour of one that offers “experts at hand” who can assess the individual needs of each pupil.