On 13 March, eight parents from across Britain came to Westminster for a meeting with the education secretary. All are parenting children with SEND while living on a low income, and shared their experiences and their calls for change with the education secretary, advisers and officials. Two more parents who could not be there in person had speeches read out on their behalf. This article brings together excerpts from these speeches.
This briefing covers the following announcements: the new crisis and resilience fund, free school meals, school-based nurseries, housing and employment support/benefits.
This briefing, from CPAG and the NEU, lays out from an education perspective what is needed to reduce child poverty, to alleviate the negative impacts of poverty on children’s education, and to empower schools to ensure all children can thrive in education.
These large cuts to sickness and disability benefits risk undermining wider government objectives to tackle child poverty and increase living standards by the end of this parliament.
The minimum cost of education parents in the UK must meet is now over £1,000 a year for a child at primary school and nearly £2,300 a year for a child at secondary school.
