Warwickshire Tory councillors facing backlash over 'disgusting' comments about special needs children

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Tory councillors are facing backlash from parents over their "disgusting" comments about children with special educational needs. The discussion at Warwickshire County Council was about the rising cost of council support in the area.

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00:00 Some eye-watering figures here to do with people and money.

00:05 Does anyone know why this is increasing so rapidly, these figures?

00:16 Is it something in the water?

00:18 Can we correlate that with things like a rise in social media use?

00:22 Why are there so many people now jumping out with these needs?

00:25 Where were they in the past when I was at school? I'd never heard of Z.

00:28 You may have found if you were at school in the 1960s or 1970s

00:34 that many of those children weren't in schools.

00:36 They were in institutions of different types at that time.

00:39 They must have had better ways of dealing with them at that time.

00:45 Let's go back to some of those ways.

00:49 I've seen sites where families are swapping tips on how to get their children diagnosed.

00:54 I don't want to be too Daily Mail on this, but I am.

01:01 Not automatically accepting the plea of a mother saying that little Willie has got ADHD

01:09 when in actual fact little Willie has just really badly behaved

01:14 and needs some form of strict correction.

01:18 I don't know what the fix is.

01:21 I just look back at years gone by.

01:25 Those people were dealt with by whatever means.

01:28 It was right at the time.

01:30 What comes down to parenting and what comes down to actually send issues?

01:37 Although we are obligated to supply this cover for the needs of these people,

01:44 it appears to be a bottomless pit and a hole that we're throwing loads of money into.

01:50 To stop this spin, fix the problem at source.

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