Parents are furious after Tory councillors made offensive comments about children with special needs

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Warwickshire council members referred to children with SEND as &quot;really badly behaved&quot; and that we should go back to the past when children were placed in institutions. Credit: SWNS

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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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