EDITOR’ COMMENT
The quality of services to our most vulnerable residents is a test of any decent society.
As our front-page report states, scores of children with special needs and disabilities in Solihull, and their stressed-out parents, are having to cope with the additional difficulty of council failures to deliver their crucial education support plans within the legal 20-week timescale.
Council leaders says it’s also a national problem, which includes a backlog of re-assessments due to government changes in procedures.
Yet Solihull is lagging behind other councils.
We’ll report more next week from our ongoing investigations.
Parents’ claims of serious multi-agency problems are supported by a joint Ofsted and Care Quality Commission report heavily critical of Solihull’s SEND services.
