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Lord Touhig (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 October 2024

Debate

Special Educational Needs

Contribution

My Lords, I declare an interest as a vice-president of the National Autistic Society. Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, has recently produced a report on waiting times to get a diagnosis for autism. She says: “We have created a system … working against itself”. Children need the diagnosis before they can get SEND provision and they have to wait up to five years, sometimes, for a diagnosis. Will my noble friend look at this and the report? In the meantime, children are getting no help and support at all. We have to change this.

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