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Analysis: SEN Green Paper - The advent of parent power?

Ambitious reforms for special needs support could be stymied by being launched in a time of budget cuts. Mary Evans hears about the issues.

Parents of children who are disabled or who have special educational needs are to be given control over the support provided for their child and family, in the biggest reforms to SEN policy for 30 years.

They are to be at the heart of the decisions made about their child, including being given personal budgets, under the proposals set out in the Government's Green Paper, Support and Aspiration: a new approach to special educational needs and disability.

The consultation document published by the Department for Education envisages a system that gives parents more control and confidence, supports better life outcomes for young people and transfers power to frontline professionals and to local communities.

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