Gordon Brown urged to launch UK SEN/Autism Academies - (London, UK)Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been urged to launch SEN/Autism Academies. The call for a radical shift in SEN/Autism Schools came from Ivan Corea, head of the Autism Awareness Campaign UK. The Autism Awareness Campaign UK called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Secretary of State for Children Ed Balls to allow SEN schools to be transformed into academies under the Government's program. Mr.Corea also called on the Government to set up state of the art specialist autism schools or academies - according to estimates there over 90,000 children in the UK who are on the autism spectrum.