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The Every Child Achieving and Thriving White Paper enters a SEND legal landscape already defined by sustained Tribunal growth, escalating EHCP demand and persistent inequality across attendance, attainment and exclusion. When considered alongside Tribunal success rates, EHCP expansion, exclusion patterns and established appellate authority, the policy proposals cannot be assessed as neutral administrative reform. They engage directly with the enforceability of statutory right

INTRODUCTION •‘HOMELESS SHELTERS PERPETUATE HOMELESSNESS’ •‘DRUG BUSTS INCREASE DRUG-RELATED CRIME’ •‘FOOD AID INCREASES STARVATION’ •‘GET-TOUGH" PRISON SENTENCES FAIL TO REDUCE THE FEAR OF VIOLENT CRIME’ •‘JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT’ •‘REFORMS INSTITUTED A DECADE AGO IN THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACT 2014 HAS LED TO A PERVISE INCENTIVE SYSTEM’ All 6 headlines are based on factual stories – all 6 are well intended policies which produce the opposite of what th