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We have a brilliant new offering to tell you about – one that gets you exclusive content! We’ve linked up with a service called Patreon, as we mentioned in passing …
Who wipes their bum? About policies on toileting and disabled children
Your child may require support with their intimate care whilst they are at school. Some schools have policies whereby only female members of staff are allowed to change the pads …
Know your child’s rights to social care support
with Liz Walker, Care Services Emergency Care Co-ordinator and Safeguarding Lead for Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children Social care can conjure lots of different images in parents’ minds. Often …
All rise! SEND figures go up in 2019
For the third year running, the number of pupils with special educational needs (SEND) in schools has increased. In January 2019, the percentage rose to 14.9% from 14.6% of the …
DfE Research: Mainstream Teaching Assistant cuts negatively impacting SEND pupils
Amy Skipp with Rob Webster, Associate Professor in the Centre for Inclusive Education, UCL Institute of Education At the start of this academic year ASK Research were commissioned by DfE …
Judge: A remarkable achievement for parents to take the government to court
The judgement in the Judicial Review of a group of parents against the government over SEND funding, has been reserved after a two-day hearing. But whatever the ruling, the parents …
The government’s legal day of reckoning looms, as families challenge over SEND failures
While most of the country’s politicians are fixated on Brexit and BoJo, vulnerable children have been left to bump along the bottom of the agenda. But not tomorrow. Tomorrow, all eyes …
England’s children urgently need a new, accountable, speech and language strategy
With Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists chief executive, Kamini Gadhok MBE, and Caroline Wright, policy adviser for children and young people in England Ask any parent about the …
The latest SEND Tribunal figures paint a troubling picture
It’s raining cats and dogs outside where I live. More happily for me, it’s also raining statistics – the latest set to drop into my inbox comes from Her Majesty’s …
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The First Breath, How my baby had surgery in the womb. [giveaway]
with Olivia Gordon Parents of children with disabilities are known for their generosity in sharing their knowledge to help others. It’s one of the things this community shines at. Sometimes, …
Come and meet the Special Needs Jungle team at The Autism Show this Friday and Saturday!
This is just a quick reminder for you. The Special Needs Jungle team is at The Autism Show this Friday and Saturday and we’d LOVE to meet as many of …
Autism and Anxiety: What helps?
Anxiety appears to be increasing in children in recent years, or is it perhaps that we just appreciate its existence more these days than when I was a child? Whatever …
Sensory toys don’t work on their own.
Suppose I told you I was going to teach your child maths, and then I dumped a load of maths resources on the floor: protractors, bricks, calculators, even an old …
People power! Parents and disabled children march to end the #SENDcrisis
What a day it was! On Thursday 30th May 2019, up and down the country, parents, children, young people, professionals and even a smattering of politicians showed up in their …
EHCPs in 2019: Bedded in, or bogged down?
Early Thursday morning, whilst thousands of families and allies were preparing to march to draw attention to the national crisis in SEND, the Department for Education published their annual set …
Today we make history, taking to the streets in protest to end the #SENDNationalCrisis
Today families of children with SEND—and the children and young people themselves too—are making history. Up and down the country they are gathering in their hundreds, maybe even thousands, in …
Legal bid to change the way “school refusers” are treated
We’re seeing increasing numbers of parents feeling forced to crowdfund to help secure justice for special educational needs educational issues that should never arise. Several LAs have been taken to …
SEND success is a journey, apparently, one with no end in sight
“It’s a journey.” That’s what SEND minister Nadhim Zahawi said, repeatedly, at the final hearing of the House of Commons Education Select Committee’s SEND inquiry. This time, he and school …
SEND inquiry takedown: Parents Vs DfE
There have been close to 700 pieces of evidence (and counting) sent in to the SEND Inquiry. Tomorrow, the Department for Education will be giving evidence to the Education Select …
The SEND crib sheet: How you can help school help your disabled child
Back when my youngest, then known as Son2, was in mainstream, he didn’t yet have statutory support. Although the infant feeder school would have sent notes on to the junior …
