Recommendation 45

The Government must also increase its investment in SEND provision to ensure that children in care, alongside all pupils with SEND, get the support they need to thrive in education. Children in care are more likely to have experienced educational disruption compared with children not in care. We recognise that those with special educational needs are more likely to be impacted by educational disruption. (Paragraph 109) 50 Educational poverty: how children in residential care have been let down and what to do about it The cliff-edge transition from residential care to independent living