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captaink77.bsky.social
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”There is no set of measures the DWP can cook up that will achieve the kind of savings the Treasury is demanding, on the timescale it is demanding them, without effectively blanket-bombing disabled people”, writes @cjayanetti.bsky.social. Read more. ⬇️ bit.ly/4bjHXho

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

“Newcastle & West Berkshire both had a pupil who had been waiting two years” “Many councils also said they did not record the data – suggesting they may not be aware of the scale of the problem.” schoolsweek.co.uk/councils-fai...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW POST: Spotlight on SEND funding: Education Committee inquiry MPs refuse to be taken in by anti-parent tropes. SEND parent and journalist @samcarlisle.bsky.social has summarised the drama for us… www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I've been looking at the DfE's SEND stats again this week and it's astonishing that 48% of identified autistic kids in mainstream primary schools in England have EHCPs given that only 4% of the child population has one. Continued...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Good thread this, with local government nabobs playing out some of their most rancid bangers to a mostly unimpressed crowd

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It great to see @thenfer.bsky.social shining a light on the recruitment and retention challenges in the Specialist sector. For too long Government policy on schools workforce matters has lacked consideration of the difficulties we face and how to address them. #SEND www.tes.com/magazine/new...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

SEND finance is next up at the Education Committee's oral evidence carousel Two LA witnesses, one from state school union, one from indie school sector, one education funding expert Missing: health, social care, front-line practitioners

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NEW POST: How will Ofsted’s inspection overhaul affect children with SEND? And why you need to respond to the consultation. @captaink77.bsky.social explains www.specialneedsjungle.com/h...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I’m guessing that it took the DfE around 3 nanoseconds to conduct their public interest test when drafting this FOI response

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Successful complaints about ­councils’ special education needs (SEND) ­services in England have quadrupled in four years, in the latest evidence of the crisis facing the system. By me, for the Observer www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

96% of the SEND complaints that the LGSCO investigated in this period (the calendar year 2024) were upheld One in four of all complaints that the LGSCO investigated in 2024 were about local authority SEND maladministration And this is a lagging indicator

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

NEW POST: What happened when parents took their councils to court over SEND Safety Valve agreements? Jen Smith, a Bristol parent carer has filed a report to SNJ on proceedings www.specialneedsjungle.com/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

New blog! Governors and trustees, build on the DFE SEND Guidance with examples to support the checklist and acronym sheet: moderncassie.blogspot.com/2025/02/gove...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

This is the true life experience of parent- carer @ellychapple.bsky.social If you want to know how system generated trauma occurs and the impact it has on families and people with profound disabilities, please listen. open.spotify.com/episode/2rRf...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This makes for a difficult listen but is so important, the brilliant @ellychapple.bsky.social and myself on The Skies We're Under podcast talking about Ella's human rights claim and the impact of unlawful care proceedings on their family open.spotify.com/episode/2rRf...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

You can tell when the lobbyists have paid a visit: new greasy SEND euphemism just dropped, 'cohort-based EHCPs' DfE response parks the bus questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

So it’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week - an opportunity to shed light on a topic that is personal to me. My children are tube fed and there are many misconceptions about it. Please read my eldest’s perspective. helen2tubies.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/a...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A key challenge in the quest to make schools more inclusive is a recognition of how accountability frameworks can corrupt leaders. As Gert Biesta says, when a child becomes a liability for their school’s performance education is at an end.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

To parents and carers of autistic children: What’s one piece of advice or information you wish you had known earlier in your parenting experience? I'm writing some materials for parents and I'd really like to include your wisdom (anonymously if you'd prefer) RTs appreciated🙏

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Comfortably out by two orders of magnitude Maybe he didn’t get to that stage of Times Tables Rock Stars

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments