"Ten years ago the government changed the way special needs was funded. The vision was for full mainstreaming, but eight special needs units were saved.
Now the government is forcing their closure by taking the specialist behavioural teachers off the schools.
Anne Tolley says the teachers will be itinerant and reach more children, but the parents of special needs kids say their kids will fail in the mainstream, and how will mainstream cope with them?"
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