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Councils warn delayed Send changes raise insolvency risk
The Guardian
|June 21, 2025
Cash-strapped councils in England will be hit with hundreds of millions of pounds in extra costs after the government delayed tackling the £5bn deficits spent on supporting children and young people with special needs and disabilities.
Council leaders and experts said the two-year delay prolonged the financial struggles of local authorities as they awaited a promised overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities (Send) provision, and warned it could force more councils into sell-offs and insolvency.
Councils have been allowed to keep high needs deficits off balance sheets thanks to a statutory override, which was due to end next April, creating a "cliff-edge" that threatened to bankrupt scores of local authorities. The government has now extended the override until April 2028.
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