The recent report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) highlights a deeply troubling reality: our system is in crisis, and it has been failing children and their families for far too long.

This report paints a stark picture, warning that a lost generation of children could leave school without receiving the help they desperately need. As the chair of the Committee, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown put it, this is ‘an emergency that has been allowed to run and run'.