"Such a rapid increase would outstrip the government’s own forecasts and eat into funding for improving specialist support in mainstream schools, undermining its plans for immediate reform while straining school and council budgets.
School leaders said their special educational needs (Send) coordinators had worked through the summer to deal with the influx of requests for assessments, as secondary schools say that many more year 7 pupils are arriving with EHCPs or applications.
One described the volume of requests as “unreal”, while other schools said they expected to have double the number of incoming pupils with EHCPs when the new academic year begins this month."
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