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involves risk. Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Lizzie Dunn and today I'm joined by the spectator's Michael Simmons and the former Chief

Inspector of Ofsted, Baroness Spielman. Today we're taking a look at yet another contentious area of reform for Labour MPs,

so much so that it has been dubbed Welfare Mark 2, the proposed changes to the special educational

needs and disabilities, or SEND, system in England. To give a quick rundown, the SEND system

was introduced under the Children and Families Act 2014,

where children with certain learning difficulties or disabilities were legally entitled to learning provisions, otherwise known as education, health and care plans, provided by their local authorities.

There are concerns, however, that the current system isn't helping improve outcomes or proving

particularly cost-effective. Therefore, the Labour government is planning

to reform it, but this has sparked significant worries in the Labour backbenchers about what these

reforms might look like, with fears that disabled children could miss out on much-needed support.

Amanda, you have a wealth of experience in this area and have been pretty vocal about chinks

in the armour of the current system. Can you talk us through some of these? Yes, of course. First of all, this is one of the most emotive areas in education. And of course,

everybody is rightly, deeply sympathetic to children who've got a significant problem of any kind.

And we all understand why it's so difficult and worrying for their parents as well as well as for the children.

Got to acknowledge that up front. But it's also true that the 2014 system did significantly

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