Many children have been failed by schools and as lockdown is eased the resources will no longer be there to help them at home

While many parents are desperate for their children to return to school after months of home-learning away from friends, some children with special needs are facing the end of the best educational experience they have had in years.

Many children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) have struggled during lockdown, but others have flourished, freed from school environments that did not suit them.

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