1.8 Million Pupils Have SEN, But It Isn't A Diagnosis Count

Over 1.8 million pupils in England now have special educational needs — and the DfE's own release says, in its own words, that the breakdown by type of need "does not indicate prevalence of a medical condition or diagnosis within the population." This episode reads the June 2026 official statistics release to find the honest way to read your own SEN register against the national count —…

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