SEN protesters outside county hall in Kent

Transcript

00:00 [Cheering]

00:07 It's being understanding but it's having the compassion to understand children as well

00:11 and I don't think that compassion is there.

00:13 And as I said, we're in a society now where equality and diversity is so rife

00:18 but especially children with educational needs are still being treated like they run to the litter

00:22 and that's just, it's just not acceptable. It shouldn't be happening in this day and age.

00:27 [Chanting]

00:35 At that point where your child is potentially going through the diagnostic process, that takes too long.

00:40 So parents are forced into a situation where they put their child into mainstream education.

00:46 It doesn't fit for some of those children.

00:49 And then my standpoint really is that I'm not interested in the academic side of things.

00:56 I'm interested in the mental health side of things.

00:58 And if you impact that, that's going to have a long-term effect later on.

01:03 So if you don't invest now, you're going to need more money to invest at the other end.