Beauchamp Parish

📌📨Specialist SEND nurseries 📌 I wrote formally to the Lead Member for Children & Families, Mr Pugsley, over a week ago, setting out serious concerns and asking urgent, detailed questions. To date, I have received no response, no acknowledgement. Silence is unacceptable.

Reform-led Leicestershire County Council recently announced plans to 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲. If implemented, local children with the most complex special educational needs and disabilities would likely go without the tailored support they desperately need. I’ve asked the Education Secretary to work alongside the Conservative Opposition on the council to help stop these damaging plans.

Lord Falconer confirms it again. Under the Starmer assisted suicide bill, some people will be given lethal drugs by the state because they are poor. “Your financial position might be an element.” Key excerpts and full video: Lord Falconer: “Choice is the key thing. Your financial position might be an element in what makes you reach a decision.” Lord Harper: “I am slightly incredulous at this, so I just want to make sure I understand him correctly. He’s talking about…someone’s autonomy. If you are in a financial position where you feel that you are unable to live properly because you have no money, and as a result of that you decide that you want to end your life, that isn’t a freely reached decision. That is being done because of your circumstances. Is he really saying that he’s OK with poor people ending their lives with the assistance of others because they’re poor? Because that is what it sounds like.” Falconer: “I am saying that what this bill does is allow you to make your own decision.” Harper: “I think people would be horrified that he is suggesting that somebody because of their financial circumstances should be more likely to end their life than somebody who isn’t.” Falconer: “I’m saying it’s their choice.”