Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey toured Burwell Print Centre in Cambridgeshire, commending its work supporting adults with additional needs. He discussed concerns over the government's underfunding of special education and called for quicker support for schools and local councils. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00My name's Ed, what's your name?
00:01I'm James.
00:02Hi James, nice to meet you.
00:03Good to meet you.
00:04Good to meet you too.
00:05Well I think we need to make sure we're looking after people in our community, whatever their
00:08needs and here you've got adults who are vulnerable with additional needs, but this enables them
00:14to contribute, it gives them some skills, it gives them an ability to put something
00:21back into sight and they really do, they clearly enjoy it and it's clearly a success and I
00:26think we should look at the amazing contributions that people with different needs can give,
00:31whether it's the people we've seen today or others.
00:35If you look at the whole debate about special education needs and disability, there's a
00:38real problem, particularly in schools and colleges, where the last government massively
00:43underfunded and didn't get the policies right and the new government's got to tackle it
00:48and Liberal Democrat MPs like Charlotte have been making that case for their areas and
00:54whether it's in East Anglia or across the country frankly, we're finding that schools
00:59and colleges really haven't got the support from government, local councils haven't had
01:03the support for government and they've got to act far more quickly.
01:08I worked at a factory once and when it broke down they used to make us roll Scotch eggs.