jojohutchinson.bsky.social
Director, SEND and Additional Needs @ Education Policy Institute. Former government statistician.
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Forgive me for not buying this. Andrew Neil as naif ingénue + all round babe in the woods belatedly discovering grandmama is a wolf - not very believable is it. He didn’t know less than 100k in London alone who called it by 21 Jan 2017, aka day 2. He cheerled it until that became personally risky.
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Similar thing happens with SEND. The system carefully ignores any medical diagnostic evidence that gives clear indication of level of need + insists that teachers + LA (often little to no medical / child development training) decide, because then the pesky doctors can’t tell it how much ££ to spend.
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The Great Lie that PIP is an easy benefit to get. Nearly half of applications are rejected. I wrote this ten months ago on how the PIP assessment denies benefit to people with clearly substantial illness and disabilities www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
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Just maybe, if they made physiotherapy and modern full-service mental healthcare actually available to people who need it, we wouldn’t have to have these ridiculous debates based on flawed assessments and dubious ‘get into work’ support, because fewer people would be left disabled to begin with.
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Today an article about the abandonment of female Afghan students sponsored until now by USAID, now sent home + endangered. It quotes GOP line on Biden’s disastrous withdrawal with no mention that it was the implementation of Trump’s deal with the Taliban. Sure, let’s ignore how his last deal went 🤬
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Unpacked further in this article www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Ultimately Trump’s behaviour is not about us and it’s not about Zelenskyy and we cannot alter it. It is about who he is and the choices he has made all of his life. He has chosen to ally with Putin and that won’t change.
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We will have to pretend to do diplomacy with the US until Europe can independently defend itself. But we will not gain anything from it except time, because people with Trump’s mindset never make concessions.
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Trump wasn’t winning in his exchanges with Macron and Starmer, but he *conceded nothing*. Instead he brought Vance into the room to make it 2:1 and increase his aggression against Zelenskyy
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What Vance said that started the spat was essentially: ‘look what you made him do to you’. They were abuse-coded exchanges from the outset.
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If people are saying 'oh there's too much SEND being identified' then they're essentially saying the system is failing to meet the educational needs of more and more children. Clearly special needs exist but it's also possible to create a system that meets more needs without pushing children out.
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It also takes no account of the fact the father may have been manipulative in the question of whether the mother was a risk or how big a risk. They already knew he had been circumventing previous orders. Why didn’t they consider this?
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