Special Needs Jungle

Here is the campaign website—find out how to Protect the law for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities - saveourchildrensrights.org.uk saveourchildrensrights.org.uk/photocampaign Download the right poster, fill it in, take the pic and upload #SaveOurChildrensRights

On SNJ Today: Give your views to @educationgovuk about mainstream #SEND units, a future it seems to have pinned its hopes on. All good, or is there a risk of shunting children into generic provision? We give you our views, then please give the DfE yours specialneedsjungle.com/government-obs…

NASS CEO @CDorer shares @CaptainK77 and @SpcialNdsJungle's opinion on this "vaseline on the lens" look at the safety valve programme👇 linkedin.com/posts/nassscho…

ICYMI: By almost any metric, SEND Safety Valve has failed, but you’d never guess from this entirely unbiased report specialneedsjungle.com/send-safety-va…

Parents of girl, non-verbal girl with pica, 4, who 'tries to swallow scissors' in special education fight. “We were forced to beg – not for special treatment, just for safety,” Emma told PA Real Life of her experiences in Hull. stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-…

On SNJ Today: Schools need to be better at spotting SEND before a child arrives in Alternative Provision, says expert, @PhoenixEdSarah. She outlines how 3-Tier AP is moving from sanctions to support specialneedsjungle.com/3-tier-ap-reth…

Anger over school's bouncy castle attendance reward. One parent whose son has SEND needs said, "He wouldn't have understood at all. I don't see that as a reward. It's more of a punishment to the children that aren't allowed on there." - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

NEW POST: Alternative Provision expert, @PhoenixEdSarah outlines how 3-Tier AP is rethinking Alternative Provision from sanctions to support specialneedsjungle.com/3-tier-ap-reth… #alternativeprovision #disability #exclusion

The Ombudsman has told councils to ensure they review children’s EHCPs ahead of Key Stage transfers, even if they are staying at the same school. Note: this means annual reviews must b e carried out in the autumn term for children moving key stages lgo.org.uk/information-ce…

For-profit, foreign-owned special school provider Witherslack Group’s post-tax profits were up by 28% in a year to £45m. LAs must be able to set up their own schools, maybe with other LAs. And the Government MUST limit profits made from public money schoolsweek.co.uk/abu-dhabi-owne…

How restraint in schools is traumatising children with SEND and injuring teachers. More than half of teachers using physical restraint have had no training on restraint safety in the last 2 years, and more than a quarter have had none at all, a poll shows inews.co.uk/news/restraint…

If carers ever had time for a break, what would they do? Help us call on the UK Government to give carers a legal right to a break. Sign the petition: carers.org/protest #ProtestfromHome

Today, we take unpaid carers’ voices to Parliament. #ProtestFromHome

Don’t remove the legal rights of children with SEND - @catrionamoore13 from our #SaveOurChildrensRights campaign group sets out why we're campaigning for the government not to reduce eligibility for #EHCPs tes.com/magazine/analy…

NEW POST: @educationgovuk 's URGENT survey for data on its new obsession: Mainstream #SEND units. All good, or is there a danger of shunting children into generic provision? We give you our views, then please give the DfE yours specialneedsjungle.com/government-obs…

If you or your child/relative lives with ME/CFS, the Government has published its final delivery plan, focusing on 3 main areas to improve care and support gov.uk/government/pub…

SEND Legal Advice charity, @sos_sen has written a terse letter to Bridget Phillipson, about the Government's lack of engagement its creation of uncertainty over the future of EHCPs facebook.com/share/p/14MZEJ…

On SNJ Today: Back in 2021, SNJ's @CaptainK77 was the first to bring the last government’s #SENDSafetyValve scheme to light. The Safety Valve evaluation report proves it's been a failure, no matter how hard the report's authors try to pretend otherwise. specialneedsjungle.com/send-safety-va…

SNJ’s 80 practical recommendations to solve the SEND Emergency -do you agree? What else would you suggest? specialneedsjungle.com/snjs-80-practi…

We demanded help for our sick children. We were accused of abuse - Elly Chapple recounts the horrific treatment they had when simply asking for support - #FII thetimes.com/life-style/par…

NEW POST: SNJ's @CaptainK77 🫡 was the first to bring the #SEND Safety Valve scheme to light. Today, he deconstructs a new report into this controversial programme: “By practically any metric, the Safety Valve scheme has failed to meet its objectives.” specialneedsjungle.com/send-safety-va…