Tania writes:
Here's a video made by the DfE about when Ed Timpson, the SEN Minister, came to Surrey. It features families and young people trialling the Education, Health and Care plan and two key people from the Surrey pathfinder whom I greatly admire, Susie Campbell, Surrey's Pathfinder Manager and Julie Pointer, Transition Development Manager.
If you find it difficult to understand what the reforms are all about through reading the documents, have a look at this video and you will learn lots about what is planned for the whole of England.
Let us know what you think!
Founder, CEO, Editor at Special Needs Jungle
Founder of Special Needs Jungle. Parent of two young adults with autism. New grandma. Tania is a member the Ofsted SEND Inspections Stakeholders Advisory Group, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Royal Holloway, University of London Centre of Gene and Cell Therapy. She is also on the Editorial Board of Springer Nature Gene Therapy journal
She is also an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. Tania also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media. She is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
She is also an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. Tania also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media. She is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
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The aspirations demonstrated by this clip are laudable but so far away from the everyday reality of what goes on for children and families with SEN in Surrey that it made me cringe to hear Surrey being held up as an exemplar. To make the new system work, major culture change will be needed if the exiisting attitudes and behaviours are not to ossify around new buzzwords. Creating new systems and processes does not mean changed attitudes. Those involved in the pilot are in the right space. It will be a much bigger task to bring the rest of Surrey… Read more »