Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 05.06 EST
While many parents are desperate for their children to return to school after months of home-learning away from friends, some children with special needs are facing the end of the best educational experience they have had in years.
Many children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) have struggled during lockdown, but others have flourished, freed from school environments that did not suit them.
Their parents fear that from tomorrow, in England, this progress will start to disappear. “This week we have seen a huge change in him. He is really down about it all coming to an end,” said Tracey Rowell, from Newbury in Berkshire, speaking about her 12-year-old son Albert, who has autism.