{"id":70485,"date":"2025-01-15T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70485"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:10:27","slug":"surge-in-children-with-special-needs-risks-bankrupting-half-of-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/surge-in-children-with-special-needs-risks-bankrupting-half-of-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in children with special needs risks bankrupting half of councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1xdEvN.img?w=768&amp;h=481&amp;m=6&amp;x=399&amp;y=165&amp;s=114&amp;d=114\" alt=\"child on sofa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cost of supporting schoolchildren with\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/04\/04\/adhd-and-autism-referrals-up-fivefold-since-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">special needs such as autism and ADHD<\/a> risks pushing almost half of all English councils into bankruptcy by 2026, MPs have warned.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/surge-in-children-with-special-needs-risks-bankrupting-half-of-councils\/ar-AA1xdzQg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=60cd815c508f4576aa8df04d23d8e307&amp;ei=14\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; The cost of supporting schoolchildren with\u00a0special needs such as autism and ADHD risks pushing almost half of all English councils into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Autism-spectrum.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70487,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485\/revisions\/70487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}