The reform candidate UK to be the first mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jankkyns, seems to contradict the leader of his Nigel Farage party about his perspective of children with special educational needs or shipping.
Give me Andrea, a former conservative minister, has spoken publicly about her and her young son who has a hyperactivity care deficit disorder (ADHD).
At a press conference last week, Nigel Farage said he thought there were too many diagnoses of special educational needs in children.
Farage said that “many of these diagnoses, to send before 18, for the disability registration after 18, so many of these have been carried out in Zoom, with the family’s GP.
“And I think we are massively, I am not without beer, I am being frank, I think we are massively about diagnosing people with mental illness problems and those with other behavioral disabilities.”
Lady Andrea told the BBC that she and Mr. Farage “will not always agree on everything” when they are asked to respond to their comments.
“At no party you once agreed with everything. I did not do it with the conservatives, I was the worst critic,” he added.
“All I can follow is my personal experience as a father, as someone who is Neurodive Myelf, and as a former deputy who saw some of the very sad stories of children, how they have really left behind.”
Lady Andrea said she had seen people waiting for three or four years to receive a diagnosis for a child, “when they go to secondary education and are far behind.”
“I took my son from the main current to private school because he was two years ago, and as a father, you do the best for your son. I know his daily struggles and for me it is about guaranteeing that all those who support all the best begin in life.”
A source close to Nigel Farage said he was trying to argue that mental health problems were being diagnosed in children.
