Leader of Derbyshire County Council, Alan Graves, stated in an interview with BBC Derby’s Georgia Roberts that:
I personally think there are too many people in the [SEND] system, I think there are reasons for that and it’s to do with schools getting extra money for dealing with that. Most people are just about on the spectrum but they’re coping.”
Graves acknowledged he did not have any evidence for his claims on overdiagnosis. You can read the article on the BBC website here, and if – as a Derbyshire school governor – you want to challenge his assertions, you can contact him by email here.
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