Education secretary Bridget Phillipson and her colleagues want to maximise the numbers of Send kids taught at mainstream schools, driven by a staunch belief in the ideal of “inclusion”, and the slightly less idealistic imperative to cut spending on comparatively expensive special school places, and hack down the transport bills resulting from getting thousands of kids to scarce placements miles away from where they live. Over 10 years, £3.7bn will be spent on buildings and facilities in mainstream secondary schools that will seemingly contain “inclusion bases”, where kids with the relevant needs will be given extra help.