The SEND Reform presents a rare opportunity: a chance to reshape a system that too often fails the very children it is designed to support... ...Yet it feels eerily quiet. It is as if the door to change has finally opened—but those standing in front of it are too exhausted to walk through. That exhaustion matters. What is being proposed is not taking place in a vacuum. It is landing in a system already under strain—where staff are overwhelmed, children are dysregulated, and o