{"id":79640,"date":"2025-09-17T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79640"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:16:47","slug":"third-of-uk-parents-have-sought-special-needs-assessment-for-their-child-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/third-of-uk-parents-have-sought-special-needs-assessment-for-their-child-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Third of UK parents have sought special needs assessment for their child, survey finds"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1MGZmF.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Data from the Department of Education found that there were 482,000 children with educational, health and care plans in England last year. Photograph: Studio.G Photography\/Shutterstock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One in three parents have sought a special needs assessment for their child, according to a survey that reveals a surge in demand for special needs support in schools across the UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/third-of-uk-parents-have-sought-special-needs-assessment-for-their-child-survey-finds\/ar-AA1MH1ze?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68cb3ae16c7241eebe925ad3f62beb8f&amp;ei=25\">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>One in three parents have sought a special needs assessment for their child, according to a survey that reveals a surge in&#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-79640","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\/79640","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=79640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79641,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79640\/revisions\/79641"}],"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=79640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}