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The cost of sending children with special educational needs to private schools has tripled in the past five years, an expert on the subject has claimed. Kent education expert Peter Read says one pupil alone costs £350,000 a year, while there are up to ten others who have a price tag of more than £200,000 each. Mr Read, a former head at a grammar school in the county, says figures from a Freedom of Information (FOII) request show the cost of such provision was £28m in 2019 and soared to £84m in 2022-23. The revelations came as it emerged Kent County Council (KCC), as the education authority, is…