Courses are deeply infused with Critical Social Justice (CSJ) ideology, promoting gender ideology, identity politics, and ‘inclusion’ narratives regardless of whether at odds with child safeguarding that was noted by Cass.
The necessary evaluations involve many voices and inevitably take time. Although this can be frustrating, it means outcomes are much more resistant to influence from groups and individuals with extreme agendas and ideologies.
Demand for EHCPs will remain as strong as demand once was for Statements, because families will always seek the only mechanism that carries legal force. Shift the language from “deficit” to “complexity”, and the system will adapt accordingly.