Scandalous Profiteering Wasting Millions of Public Money

22 April 2026

A brightly coloured comic by @crippencartoons titled “Scandalous Profiteering Wasting Millions of Public Money”.

Panel One: a woman with ginger hair reads from a laptop displaying the headline “17 Million Children in UK labelled with SEN”. She says “This is ridiculous. Just look at how these costly placements in private special schools are threatening Inclusive Education for Disabled children!”

Her friend in a red jumper agrees “Yes, without urgent funding, accountability and a real commitment to mainstream education the system risks excluding the very students it should be supporting!”

Panel Two: The woman continues reading ”The system risks excluding the very students it should be supporting!” 

Her friend adds “This placement in independent special schools costs almost 2.5 times the amount of a Local Authority school and can be much higher!”

Panel Three: The woman agrees saying “And with these private companies seeing the gap and moving in local Authorities are all ending up having to pay their high fees!”

Panel Four: She continues “But have you seen the profits that these companies are making?!”

Panel Five:  She adds “Well, recent research showed that the top handful of profiting companies each made tens of millions a year.”

Panel Six: The friend in a red jumper shakes his fist saying “The government must stop this scandalous profiteering wasting million of public money and harming our children’s education!”