This government is failing disabled children – here’s what you can do about it
By 
Mark Arnold2024-06-19T16:03:00
Disabled children are floundering in a broken system, says additional needs campaigner, Mark Arnold. And whoever receives the keys to Downing Street must do something about it immediately
Just a few days ago we learned of the horrific abuse taking place at an independent special educational needs school in the Wirral. Staff at ‘Life Wirral’ in Wallasey were caught by an undercover BBC reporter cruelly mocking and manhandling disabled children, fantasising about killing them and boasting about the physical abuse meted out to a student.
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