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Cuts to a Midland council's special educational needs budget have been branded "shortsighted" and "bizarre".

Reform UK-controlled Worcestershire County Council is set to slash £3m from its special educational needs and disabilities and social care capital budgets while tightening its borrowing restrictions.

The authority's education boss maintained the decrease would not stop any schemes from proceeding.

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But Tory Coun Seb James said "the ability to commission quality SEND services" would be affected. He said: "They have cut a secondary school off the cuff and SEND provision but not anything else – such as the lunch served at full council meetings which they could just cut as a ca

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