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==== Character Sketch: Who Writes This Letter? ====

===== Background =====
* Likely late 50s to 70s
* Educated, articulate, probably middle-class
* Lives in (or recently moved to) a rural or semi-rural area
* Regular churchgoer or culturally Anglican, even if not devout
* Possibly: - a retired teacher (not SEND-specialist), - a GP or allied professional, - a magistrate, vicar, or local councillor, - or a parent of a child with mild-to-moderate SEND several decades ago.

They have seen institutions decline and feel personally pained by it.

===== Lived Experience of SEND =====
* May have: - volunteered with a special school, - supported a child with dyslexia, autism, or learning difficulties, - worked alongside “special needs children” in a pastoral or supervisory role.

Crucially:
* they have not navigated modern EHCP processes intensively,
* nor dealt with acute behaviours, complex trauma, or high-risk needs.

Their experience is real, but partial.

===== Worldview =====

Community over system
They trust small-scale, local, relational solutions more than national policy.

Moral commonsense over professionalisation
They suspect that experts and regulators have made things worse, not better.

Continuity over change
They value reusing what already exists—buildings, traditions, social roles.

Care framed as benevolence, not rights
SEND children are “differently abled,” deserving compassion, calm, and shelter—less often framed as rights-holders with legal entitlements.

===== Tone of the Letter =====
* Warm, imaginative, “Why hasn’t anyone thought of this?”
* Uses “Imagine…” repeatedly — signalling moral clarity rather than policy detail
* Appeals to: - waste reduction, - rural revival, - community cohesion, - and quiet dignity.

There is a sense that the solution is obvious once you stop overthinking it.