Parents: No response to concerns raised over special education

'We've had to dip into our savings to keep our SEN son at private school'

A business owner who has a child with special educational needs (SEN) has had to dip into her savings to be able to pay for her son’s vital educational support.Andrea Collins’s 11-year-old son Gabriel has severe dyslexia with traits of dyspraxia, and has always been privately educated.Ms Collins, who runs a business consultancy, says she has also had to stop hiring staff because of the introduction of VAT on private school fees.“We used the 15 h…

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Parents: No response to concerns raised over special education

Some parents say they were met with silence after contacting school administrators about the special education program failing their children.