The Story of Different Minds  ·  The Warnock Report

Needs, Not Places

Why support should be based on need rather than where a child is sent.

Where to put the child was the wrong first question.

Simple version

Warnock helped shift attention from placement categories to educational need.

Why it matters

But modern systems can still fall back into placement thinking rather than understanding the child.

Awareverse lens

Awareverse asks what the child needs before arguing where they belong.

Question to ask

When looking at needs, not places, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?

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