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Petition

To increase Special Educational Need and Disabilities (SEND) school settings

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

I am starting this petition to beg this Government to put more budget into the severely underfunded SEND system. We need more spaces in current specialist schools, new schools opening, or at the very least a SEN hub at every mainstream primary school.
Like many others across the country, my non-verbal autistic child is without a school placement, because there is a lack of specialist school settings. He cannot go to a mainstream school and there are no specialist schools available. As parents, we are now faced with the prospect of having to homeschool which is not fair let alone financially feasible.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Fund the creation of more SEN schools
Fund the creation of more SEN schools

Timeline

1 Jul 2025 Petition opened for signatures
25 Jul 2025 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16
Status Rejected
Rejected 25 Jul 2025

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 13 Aug 2026.