{"id":796868,"date":"2026-10-09T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796868\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:34:12","slug":"most-of-councils-special-needs-debts-written-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796868\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of councils&#8217; special needs debts written off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leise Cooper, whose children have special educational needs, set up the Hertfordshire-based charity Angels to help families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you look back three years, it felt like every family we saw was having a complete nightmare,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We see families now who say things like, &#8216;Oh, that wasn&#8217;t as bad as I thought it was going to be,&#8217; which is great. I love that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper added, however, that there were still &#8220;hundreds of thousands&#8221; of children whose needs were not being met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hertfordshire County Council said it was also getting nearly \u00a310m to expand its team of specialists who support education settings and help mainstream schools accommodate more children with special needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leise Cooper, whose children have special educational needs, set up the Hertfordshire-based charity Angels to help families. &#8220;If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}