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    1. vividpup5535 on

      To be clear, current spending year 23/24 is 1.73 billion on getting disabled children to school.

      Whilst this is a significant increase, from a meager 645 million pounds in fiscal year 2016/2017, and the system is showing signs of strain, it is actually to be expected.

      To put this into perspective, that 1.73 billion is tuppance compared to some absolute ridiculous nonsense the UK taxpayer is currently paying out on.

      Hs2 (a road) is costing us 70 billion pounds.

      Chagos islands deal (to house American rockets) – costing us 35 billion pounds.

      Even the asylum hotels that the Daily Mail go on about all day costs more than this at around 2 billion a year.

    2. Healeah241 on

      Why are we hiring companies to do this? Must be cheaper to do it inhouse.

    4. bigarsebiscuit on

      How else are they meant to wave flags outside hotels at the other side of the country?

    5. PetersMapProject on

      One factor that people never like to discuss is that we’ve got a lot better at keeping babies alive – especially extremely premature babies. 

      Whereas once they would have died as neonates, now they survive but often with very significant physical or cognitive disabilities that necessitate a special school. We have kids that are in wheelchairs, on portable ventilators with little hope of ever coming off ventilation, let alone living a relatively normal life. Often they will need 24/7 lifetime care. 

      While saving babies is something the parents desperately want, we cannot pretend that this is a cost free course of action. 

      There’s a lot of chat about mild autism diagnosed a lot more, and not a lot about kids who wouldn’t have survived 10 or 20 years earlier. 

    6. Consistent-Pirate-23 on

      Oh goody this again

      I was one of those kids (I’m autistic and dyspraxic) and this was an era where going to mainstream school was not thought of as possible for a kid like me, but I went anyway.

      We moved, tried to get into local mainstream primary, no room. Where is there room? Where I went before.

      School was 3 miles away. Taxi picked a bunch of us up, we all went to the same school apart from one kid.

      So there was me, a girl with cerebral palsy who was walking with a stick at primary school (last time I saw her she was using an electric wheelchair), a girl who had a tracheotomy at about age 7 and I can’t remember much about the other two.

      So when I was aged in single figures my daily trip to school was measured in hours, such fun

    7. anonypanda on

      Why are their parents unable to transport them to school themselves, the way other parents do…? Or public transport? A school bus?

    8. Apprehensive_Bus_543 on

      Three cars parked on the drive and the taxpayer picks up the bill to take kids to school.

    9. Apez_in_Space on

      For anything to remain the same in real terms, it should be at a record high for spending currently just because of inflation. We should be more outraged by any community services that currently aren’t at record highs.

    10. thejackalreborn on

      I have a sibling who has a pretty severe disability – they got transported to and from school and now as an adult get lots of hours of care paid for by the council.

      I’ve spent lots of time in special needs schools and at adult social care centres. Some of the people require two carers with them at all times when they’re at school/clubs. This care is incredibly expensive.

      As a society we absolutely need to protect the most vulnerable but there is no natural law that the support needed will always be possible to deliver. I really hope that social care (including transport to school) for people with disabilities doesn’t become a political football but I fear that is where we are going

    12. eldomtom2 on

      Here’s a paywall-free version: https://archive.ph/90VnR

      It turns out the primary thrust of the article is arguing that large efficiencies could be made without harming children by reallocating student places to minimise travel distance and by avoiding local authorities making piecemeal deals. Key drivers of increasing costs are rising costs in the transport market and a shortage of local schools.

    13. bluewolfhudson on

      A special school up the road from me has about 30 taxis are parked up there waiting for the end of the day.

      I chatted with one of them and he told me he gets £55 each trip.

      So that’s £550 a week.

      For maybe 2 hours work.

      It’s a good gig to be honest.

      Though you need a special car and some kind of safeguarding certificate.

      This is a private special school though so now idea who is paying that 55 a trip.

      I would have thought busses would be more affordable but obviously route planning and what not.

    14. IceGripe on

      They have entirely created this situation by closing or demoting special needs schools.

      Now SEND kids can be at many different schools so individual transport will cost more.

      Back in the day when there were a lot of special schools, coaches were used to transport a bunch of kids at once.

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