Leaways special school: how privatisation is failing children
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2021-10-23

Staff at Leaways Special School, part of the Kedleston Group, took 22 days of strike action to improve the appalling conditions for the SEND children who attend the school, and their own terms of conditions. 


Unfortunately the school (who charges the council an eye-watering £53,000 per child per year - £12,000 more than Eton) is not an isolated case. Rampant privatisation through academies, and the league tables and exclusions that have come with it, have led to plenty of unscrupulous bosses (often with no experience of education) making millions out of our most vulnerable children, while completely ignoring their needs. 


The NEU is winning more and more disputes against the horrors of privatisation - and is determined to build towards changing the policy of a government that is alone amongst the OECD countries in implementing this insane, unworkable, privatised form of education.