The Institute for Fiscal Studies is saying that whoever wins the General Election will have to make the biggest cuts in public services for a generation - and that none of the three main parties is telling us the half of it. (It's a story reported in all the serious papers but The Independent report will do as well as any.)
How do we in conductive education prepare for the "biggest cuts in public services for a generation"?
Pondering that set me thinking: often we have been confronted with comparisons between fees for a placement in a conductive education school and a local authority school. Usually the comparison works to our disadvantage as its like comparing apples with oranges: fruit but different kinds.
Has anyone, anywhere, ever done a proper comparison of the real costs - including the costs lifelong to public services of dependency as compared with supported independence?
I know of studies that attempt to quantify the cost of disability and of the link between disability and poverty. These might give us some pointers.
Do you have any ideas?
Constructing and making the case that the mainstream is more expensive than conductive education would at least be a novel approach to defending ourselves against the cuts to come - and dispel a few myths, too, maybe?
