Parents have given evidence to councillors about the state of services for special needs children.
Parents said Devon County Council were failing children with special needsParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities say their children "have been failed” by Devon County Council
Campaigners spoke at a meeting of DCC’s Children’s Scrutiny Panel, which also heard about a new plan for improvements to services.in tackling four areas of significant weakness.Holly Greenberry-Pullen, from campaign group SEND Parents for Change, has two children with special educational needs. She said: "When you have to fight a council to support your children's needs, you get to a point of absolute exhaustion, frustration, disbelief of the lack of communication and it drives you to the point of breakdowns.Image caption,The council said it would not only look at areas of weakness identified by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission, but at the whole experience.
She said: "I recognise that what children and their parents experience on a day-to-day basis does not match the level of service we would want to deliver.
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