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Special Educational Needs

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate and I take this opportunity to place on the record my support for Cedar Hall school in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink). My experiences as a constituency MP lead me to believe that many parents of children on the autistic spectrum fall between three stools. They are batted between the education service, the health service and social services departments, and they are constantly frustrated about being sent back and forth from one to another, almost in a permanent loop. Does my hon. Friend agree that we need to reorganise the resources that we have to provide a bespoke service for those parents and children, who are badly let down by the current system?