The watchdog's annual survey of regional partnerships, which work to improve the inclusion of special needs and looked-after children in schools, found that while spending grew by 15.8 per cent in 2005/06 growth declined to 0.2 per cent in 2007/08. Ann Baxter, chair of the healthcare and additional needs policy committee at the Association of Directors of Children's Services, said the slowdown suggested the government's Removing Barriers to Achievement strategy was working. The 2004 strategy aimed to make mainstream education better prepared for special...