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KATE TAYLOR reports on the Brum Rise Up campaign to secure continuous funding of social services in the wake of the financial collapse of Birmingham City Council
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LAST week, parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in Birmingham were told that their 16-18-year-old children will no longer be able to access supported transport to school or college from September. Instead they will be provided with a bus pass.

Can you imagine sending your vulnerable child with profound needs out alone, on a bus, in a city the size of Birmingham, so they can access education at their specialist school or college?  

As a proud Brummie I felt devastated when reading about the extent and brutality of the planned cuts, and it was news like this cut to Send transport that made me realise I needed to do something.

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