Hello! I'm looking to speak to parents of kids with SEND who have struggled to get into top performing OFSTED schools - for The i Paper. Please comment or email!

#journorequest
#SEND #SENDparent #EHCP #UKEducation #SENDCrisis #UKPolitics

It's extra absurd that we believe in a static, Magic Number of Disabled People, given that we have an aging population, therefore disability will be increasing as a proportion of the population.

Demographic reality is incompatible with a static, Magic Number of Disabled People.

#SENDcrisis

"The Disabled" are considered to be a static absolute number at all times, regardless of population growth.

This ableist mindset prevents infrastructure adapting to a larger number of disabled people.

Refusing support to disabled children is socio-economic self-sabotage.

#SENDcrisis

The Schools White Paper with its accompanying SEND plans has been published. We're starting to go through it proposal by proposal. Here's Renata with more. We’ll add all links as we go
#SENDcrisis #SchoolsWhitePaper #EHCP

New SEND support will NOT be 'effective' - because it doesn't address causes The government has announced planned changes in support for the increasing numbers of school children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) - that address only its legal obligations a...

The new SEND reforms don’t tackle poverty, school cuts or early intervention collapse. They redesign legal structures to artificially curtail demand.
#SEND #EHCP #UKEducation #SENDCrisis #UKPolitics
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Today’s Papers #166: Britain’s On Fire Again, But Don’t Panic, There’s Free Fruit, A Royal Reassurance Segment, And A Clubcard Deal For Your Nervous System Royals doing “wholesome”, Trump doing whiplash, kids getting “reviewed”, and the nation coping with Prosecco, promo codes, and the warm bath of polite nouns.

Good morning Britain
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#TodaysPapers #UKNews #FrontPages #BritishSatire #MediaCritique #RoyalWatch #EpsteinFiles #SENDCrisis #Chagos #TrumpWhiplash #DefenceSpending #Deepfake #AIhype #CostOfLiving #FT #DailyMail #Guardian #iPaper #Metro #EU

This should be illegal, there should be clear limits on how much a not-for-profit school can spend on CEO’s and keep in reserve.

Parents, alongside 15 years of public sector austerity, this is fuelling the #SENDcrisis

#headteacher
#SEND
#sendcrisis
#inclusion
#wyseinclusion

Dear Nigel Farage: You Can’t Run A Country On Imaginary Savings An open letter from the people who actually pay the bills to the bloke promising to fix Britain with vibes, vanishing migrants and ghost money.

The man in the Knightsbridge penthouse funds the man at the bar to rile up the man in the bedsit against the man in the dinghy. That is your business model in one sentence.

#ReformWatch #NigelFarage #UKPolitics #CostOfLivingCrisis #SENDCrisis
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SEND | National Education Union Building inclusion in schools and colleges.

#Inclusion #SendCrisis

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Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis? Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?

"Unless reform is focused on investment, accountability and a system-wide embrace of inclusion, EHCPs will remain both essential and overstretched - leaving too many children in legal limbo, when they should be thriving?

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

#send #EHCPs #sendcrisis

Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis? Education, health and care plans have been blamed for an unsustainable rise in special educational needs in schools, but would scrapping or limiting these plans fix the problem?

"Unless reform is focused on investment, accountability and a system-wide embrace of inclusion, EHCPs will remain both essential and overstretched - leaving too many children in legal limbo, when they should be thriving?

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

#send #EHCPs #sendcrisis

England's SEND system hurtles toward 'total collapse' with £4.4bn annual deficits by 2029, as councils battle skyrocketing demand!
-> Government reforms delayed - again - spark fury from Labour MPs demanding no cuts to kids' lifelines!
#SENDCrisis

23,000 empty classrooms in England, but the SEND crisis is at breaking point (EHCPs doubled in 9yrs)!
-> The Govt's fix? A reform plan delayed until 2026. Prioritising empty buildings over pupils' urgent needs. Unacceptable. #SENDCrisis #EmptyClassrooms #EducationFailure

Schools lack the resources to support the 1.28 million children in England with special educational needs. The government must prioritise building a country that works for all children and young people. #ChildrenFirst. Featured logos of Child of the North, N8 Research Partnership, Health Equity North and Centre for Young Lives.

Schools lack the resources to support the 1.28 million children in England with special educational needs.

Join our campaign to put #ChildrenFirst

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#SENDcrisis

UK SEND spending set to balloon to £21bn by 2029 - double 2016 levels - potentially eclipsing Ministry of Justice budgets without urgent reforms, warns IFS!
-> High-needs kids' costs risk exploding into adulthood crisis!

#SENDCrisis #UKEducation #FiscalFail

Derbyshire Families Betrayed – Reform UK Calls It “Abuse” 😡 #ReformUK #SENDcrisis #Derbyshire youtu.be/k4VTnaaY4a8?...

Families shouldn’t have to fight for years to access basic rights. We need Statutory enforcement, Multi-agency accountability , Public funding, not private contracts Lived experience at the table. Rebuild SEND on justice, care, & public ownership. #SENDCrisis #EHCPReform #SENDsky

Families shouldn’t have to fight for years to access basic rights. We need Statutory enforcement, Multi-agency accountability , Public funding, not private contracts Lived experience at the table. Rebuild SEND on justice, care, & public ownership. #SENDCrisis #EHCPReform

@charlotte2153.bsky.social Families shouldn’t have to fight for years to access basic rights. We need Statutory enforcement, Multi-agency accountability , Public funding, not private contracts Lived experience at the table. Rebuild SEND on justice, care, & public ownership. #SENDCrisis #EHCPReform

Send system 'hijacked' by parents, Reform UK's Richard Tice says The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.

#reform attacking #send families. Zero evidence, just cruel & stinks of #victimblaming. #sendcrisis #disabilityrights #sen #populist #rightwing #dontvotereform #gaslighting #neurodiverse #education #shame
BBC News - Send system hijacked by parents – Reform UK's Tice
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Adults with learning disabilities die 20 years early, report finds — BBC News People with learning disabilities and autism die almost 20 years younger than the rest of the population.

Hmm, I wonder why?! A poor assessment/diagnosis system? Inadequate education support? People like me who had to wait until they were nearly 40 and having a mental breakdown before getting any kind of help? Politicians treating us like a burden on the system? #SENDCrisis apple.news/ASgQoXs39T62...

Our submission to the Education Committee's inquiry, Solving the SEND Crisis is now published on the committee’s website.

🔗committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/135905/p...

#Education #SEND #SENDcrisis #COVIDInquiry #LongCovidKids #LongCovid
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SEND Crisis-Disappointment Mounts

Labour’s Shaun Davies 🥀, MP for Telford, admits SEND is broken—but offers only empty promises & vague funding talk. Families need real action & legal protection, not platitudes. Our kids deserve better! #SENDCrisis
#shaundaviesmp 🥀
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🚨 Councils are spending up to £159,000 per year to taxi one SEND child to school.
Wes Streeting says the system is “unsustainable.”
But cutting rights won’t fix a broken system.
Here’s what they’re not telling you 👇
#SENDCrisis #DisabilityRights

‪@itvnews.bsky.social‬ (Meridian) has covered my call to the Deputy Prime Minister to do more for my constituent Axel—and the 640 other SEND children still without a school place this September.
#SENDCrisis #PMQs #InclusiveEducation

Talking to my MP today and then my County Council and other SEND professionals tomorrow at a conference I've managed to wangle an invite to. Wish me luck #SENDcrisis #Devon @richardfoordld.bsky.social #post16 #juniorpeersupport #mentoring

‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerless

1 in 3 disabled people in the UK are facing financial, housing, and health crises — all at once.
That’s 3.5 times more likely than the general population. #disabilityjustice #housingcrisis #stresscrisis #sendcrisis

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