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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jasmine Norden

Why children with Send from low-income homes face ‘double disadvantage’

Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Send) who are also from poorer homes face double the disadvantage, a charity has warned.

Social mobility charity Sutton Trust said disadvantaged children with Send are being failed by a system “beset with inconsistency and mind-boggling bureaucracy”.

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