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Pupils and parents are being failed by SEND support crisis

Responding to the publication last month (23/10/19) of the Education Select Committee's report on children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for South West Herts, Sally Symington, said: "Children with SEND have borne the brunt of the schools funding crisis. Teaching assistants and other support staff have been sacked. Meanwhile, parents struggle to get the support their child needs as schools, healthcare providers and local councils squabble over who should pay. "The Conservatives have left local councils floundering. Councils cannot provide support on time and are unable to to create the new specialist school places that some children with the most complex needs require. "Liberal Democrats demand better for our children. We will give councils thousands of pounds a year extra for every child with the most complex needs, so they can deliver the support children deserve on time and we will create a new National SEND strategy, stopping councils from

12 Nov 2019
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Sally Symington April 2017

Sally Symington is standing as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Hemel Hempstead on 8th June

Sally Symington has been selected to stand as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Hemel Hempstead constituency. When asked how she felt about the upcoming election Sally said "I feel inspired and energised by the flood of support that I have already received personally, and that the party has received nationally, in the last three days since the announcement of the snap election. This is a hugely pivotal time for us all and I am very honoured and proud to have the good fortune to be the Liberal Democrat candidate in this election and reveal the lies and distortions of the Hard (now renamed 'Clean') Brexit movement of which Mike Penning is a part. The people of Hemel Hempstead deserve better - they deserve an open and honest debate about the choices we face both locally and as a nation and the consequences of those decisions as they affect us all."

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21 Apr 2017
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