Increase school funding to meet need for special education, MPs urge

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1. Nearly 70 English councils say they face insolvency over special needs education debt | Financial Times

2. What is SEND and why are councils struggling to pay for it? | BBC

3. Rising Send costs will ‘bankrupt’ four in five English local authorities, leaders say | The Guardian

4. Eight in ten councils face bankruptcy over 'broken' Send system | Morning Star

5. Keir Starmer tells Wes Streeting to help lead Send reforms as rebellion looms | The Times

School funding for special educational needs (SEND) should be increased and protected to meet the rise in demand for support, a group of MPs has said, as ministers consider major reforms.