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ASD Friendly is a support network of parents with Autistic and Aspergers children.
Icing fairy cakes for grandson’s visit set me off maudlin. I’ve iced pink fairy cakes every birthday for d for 32 years maudlin over whether she will be upset when I can’t. Shook myself knowing I’m going to leave 2 kids dependent on others so the fairy cakes are nothing really.
Going North and to the coast for a few days hoping the heat is more bearable. Ex husband, adult kids, autistic two, grandson, 2 dogs. Good job the house is a big one so should be fun.
Should this actually be "schools unhappy at AI redressing power imbalance & helping oarents advocate for their kids better"? How about reduce the issues causing complaints rather than taking exception to the tool used to write them? archive.ph/5kO75
12pm surgery rings asking to swap d's medication review appointment from next Monday to today at 2pm. I declined, I can't spring anything on her, they have no clue about d's needs as demonstrated by the huff I got in response.
Children should not be having panic attacks and suicidal thoughts about school attendance.
Hmm..Not sure I agree with this. How can you teach resilience? Also having worked exclusively with EOTAS children for the past year, the one thing they don’t lack is resilience! It’s how they survive in a system that fails them. It’s proper support and understanding they need
Look into the back stories of many of the disciples of TLAC/ZT/RtR & other disciplinarian thought structures in schools and you'll find a lot of bullied boys hiding in grown men's bodies, cosplaying strength & trying to establish authority for themselves: open.substack.com/pub/senddaddia…
And another LGO ruling in the bag! Imagine it will be the written apologies the LA needs to make that will sting the most.
We're always pointing out that the main problem with current SEND law is that so many LAs disobey it. This article gives really useful guidance on how to enforce it: specialneedsjungle.com/4-tips-absolut…
How can you support the campaign 2) see sharing the petition, we want to get 150,000!! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7110… #SaveOurChildrensRights
For the vast majority of children in private schools with EHCPs, it is the LA that pays the school's costs not parents. I would like to know where he is getting his information from? Parents are seeking EHCPs to ensure their children's needs are fully recognised and supported!
The “EHCP system’ doesn’t fail children. The system is maintained by individuals who fail children. The 2019 Education Select Committee highlighted this in its inquiry. The failure was identified as ‘a lack of accountability at all levels, from central gov, to LA’s & schools’.
There is no SEND rebellion threatening Labour over Education Health Care Plans. We all know that the EHCP system fails countless children & that a better, faster & more caring approach is long overdue. Until last week everyone was frustrated by what now some are sticking up for!!
Getting to the point where I'm wondering if politics is now such a toxic mess of ego and paranoia that very few - apart from the extreme fringes - actually hold onto any core values.
Im confused. We now are in a situation where Labour want the most disadvantaged in society to be the source of savings (PIP, #send, winter fuel payment) and we have Tory MPs demanding support remains, with wealth taxes raised. What has actually happened?
Amanda Spielman describing ASD and ADHD as "behavioural conditions" shows just how much ignorance there is about SEND even among education leaders. Listen to the experts: the parents, practitioners, campaigners. Because the people denigrating kids' rights don't have a clue.
"The definition of 'necessary' has expanded greatly in recent years." Baroness Spielman, former Ofsted Chief Inspector, and Kate Cox debate the expansion of EHCP provision. #Newsnight
According to @AnnabelDenham1 in @Telegraph SEN is becoming an “unaffordable racket”. It seems our kids are living lives unworthy of life. Certainly too expensive to educate.
This is really misguided. Children having a right to support in education is not the thing that's failing them. Obstacles being put in the way of children accessing support is the problem - not the law itself. It's a bad look, championing the withdrawal of a legal backstop.
There is no SEND rebellion threatening Labour over Education Health Care Plans. We all know that the EHCP system fails countless children & that a better, faster & more caring approach is long overdue. Until last week everyone was frustrated by what now some are sticking up for!!
"It took years of wrestling with bureaucracy before my local authority agreed to provide the services that my child is legally entitled to – so I won’t be handing back our hard-won SEND provision without a fight" says James Moore #saveourchildrensrights independent.co.uk/voices/send-sp…
In @Independent columnist & parent carer James Moore, "Taking on the long-suffering parents of disabled children is a dangerous game..When you’re Goliath but still lose more than 95% of tribunals to parent Davids, that’s a you problem not a system problem" independent.co.uk/voices/send-sp…
The Spielman myth, the explosion of suspensions & exclusions of children with SEND is off the chart in mainstream. Just look at the fig's for EHCP's, it drops because the LA has a legal duty & schools a best endeavours duty. Make SEND statutory, simple! x.com/mjello06/statu…
Eventually had an FOI response from the DfE and thought I'd have another little play on Power Bi. 2019/20 to 2022/23 by total qty of suspensions & exclusion by URN / School. For the record Astrea Woodfield's in 2022/23 had 746 pupils on roll with 2600 suspensions.