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Michael Hudson: ‘only radical solutions left’ to sort out SEND deficit

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With a £118m SEND deficit and a looming audit backlog, Cambridgeshire’s section 151 officer Michael Hudson warns of tough choices ahead for councils—and for Whitehall.

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We are at a stage where the SEND deficit is so large, you only have the radical solutions left to sort it out,” says

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