Rise in child mental health demand prompts call to speed up school support reforms The proportion of children whose referrals closed before treatment has increased for the first time in five years
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Sluggish SEND review risks leaving kids ‘stuck in vicious cycle’, says de Souza ‘We have two more years of children being fed into this cycle with commensurate poor outcomes that has necessitated the review in the first place’, says children’s commissioner