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The f40 group, which campaigns on behalf of 43 local authorities that receive among the lowest education funding in England – campaigning for fairer and increased education funding, along with major reform in SEND – has strongly welcomed the Schools White Paper and SEND reforms, saying they contained much of

f40 has welcomed the news that Government is to write off 90% of local authority SEND deficits – amounting to around £5billion. f40, which campaigns on behalf of 43 local authorities across England that receive among the lowest levels of education funding, has long campaigned for the deficits to be

A local authority campaign group that campaigns for reform and fairness in education has backed a new report calling for a major rethink on SEND.  f40 said the report by the National Audit Office (NAO) on the crisis in SEND provision and funding mirrored many of their own concerns and

MPs have been urged to help in the campaign to secure reform and investment for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) as growing budget deficits threaten to topple more than half of local authorities in England.  More than 75 MPs and their representatives who attended a parliamentary briefing in Westminster

A cross-party group of MPs have called on the Chancellor to invest heavily in special educational needs after the latest figures showed an additional £4.6bn was required each year to meet the current demand for support. Members of Parliament have backed a campaign by local authority education funding group f40,

Rising costs worsened by short-termism and under-investment have left the SEND system incapable of meeting demand, writes Alex Dale. There is no doubt that the SEND system that supports our most vulnerable children is broken and needs fixing… fast. Without swift and definitive action, we are going to hit the