Chaminda Jayanetti

NEW: Maintained schools budgets have fallen further into deficit according to exclusive figures, prompting fresh concerns about their viability amid squeezed funding, rising costs and falling pupil numbers. By me, for Schools Week: schoolsweek.co.uk/school-budgets…

Revealed: Scrapping two-child benefit limit will make 'no difference at all' to 140,000 children in poverty bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

There has been no response to my appeals asking for help to stop the @PHSO publishing their botched, inept investigation into the horrific aftermath of my son’s death. Please help me to react @wesstreeting and @Keir_Starmer. Please help people like me be heard. Thank you.…

Children are starving to death in Gaza and medics fainting from hunger @Beltrew independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

"If provision for SEND children is no longer legally binding for mainstream schools, we will see a deepening in educational segregation. Children with the most significant SEND risk being denied a place where they can be educated alongside their peers.” bps.org.uk/news/restricti…

New: the hundreds of parents being investigated for child abuse when they seek help or diagnosis for their sick children thetimes.com/article/720f66…

Ombudsman upholds 94% of SEND complaints - cypnow.co.uk/content/news/o…

NEW: Government accept changes to the planning bill put forward by MP Chris Hinchliff, after they suspended him on Wednesday Hinchliff had spearheaded a rebellion against the planning bill - with his amendment also supported by the three other suspended MPs 1/3

🚨 Our 2025 Impact Report is LIVE! 🚨 This report is a celebration of our partners, grantees, and supporters who have made a lasting impact in education over the past six years. Read here: portaltrust.org/about-us/resou…

Of course, one reason people claim #PIP for mental health is that life is so brutal. Wages are low & rents are sky high & people can’t cope. Hardly a surprise, is it. Why don’t Kendall and Starmer change that? katebelgrave.com/2025/07/the-be… #disabilitybenefits

Do you have global majority students interested in video and film production who can get to Manchester? This opportunity is free, and there are travel bursaries and food is included! Wow! Use the QR code to learn more. @aakhtar (Apologies that in a previous post, I stated that…

The leader of a Reform-run county council has written to government to express “grave concern” about planned tightening of visas for health and care workers, despite party’s wider commitment to significantly reducing net migration @peterwalker99 writes theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

“For pupils with an education, health and care plan (EHCP), suspensions increased by 31.7 per cent compared with the previous year, crossing the 100,000 barrier for the first time (101,381).”

Access to Work scheme under serious threat, say campaigners - Given this is a key scheme that helps disabled people into work, this just shows how incoherent the Government's plan for disabled people is. learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/access-to…

Ministers have said the requirement for a descriptor to apply 'constantly' forms part of the way the severe conditions criteria is currently applied in the WCA. There are currently four requirements and 'constantly' doesn't appear within them. 👇

MPs will soon give their final vote on the UC & PIP bill - we've joined over other 20 organisations to raise our concerns. Over 700,000 seriously ill and disabled people will lose £3000/year on average. Government must drop these cuts. Read more👇 ucpipbill.co.uk