Catriona Moore has a background in policy and communications and has worked for a number of health, social care and disability organisations.
When her younger daughter, Amy, was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome in 2009 shortly before her second birthday, Catriona found herself dealing in practice with things she’d previously thought she understood in principle.
She works as policy manager for a national charity. Catriona, her family, and all of us at SNJ were heartbroken when Amy died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2025. Amy’s memory will live on through Catriona’s powerful writing about her life and impish personality.
Catriona is passionate about improving the lives of disabled children and their families, and making the systems that should support them work more transparently and equitably.
Catriona writes for Special Needs Jungle in a personal capacity, and all views expressed are her own.
Catriona’s posts on SNJ
- “Why would anyone in government think that was an okay idea?” #SaveSENDLegalRights
- The SEND reform reality check: Why experts’ and policymakers’ concerns are growing under scrutiny
- MPs warn “unsustainable” SEND transport system fails families with disabled young people
- Legal challenge launched against government SEND proposals that “significantly weaken the legal rights of children and young people”
- Leaks, denials, and fake conversations are no way to inspire parental confidence in Government SEND plans
- Understanding Parent Blame: Stories of institutional failure and complex trauma BOOK GIVEAWAY!
- NAO: Government must boost school transport data and ensure SEND plans don’t make it harder to attend
- Teachers fear education policy reforms will make things worse, not better, for children with SEND
- Reforming disabled children’s social care: a disappointing fudge as Law Commission rows back proposals
- SEND Minister refuses to guarantee keeping SEND legal rights in Schools White Paper
- SEND accountability: The law for disabled children’s education isn’t optional, IPSEA reminds the SEND Inquiry
- Empty spaces and unwanted freedom: When caring comes to an end
- Remembering AMY, Catriona and Ed’s “fierce and funny and fabulous” daughter
- Should “SEN Support” by made a legal duty to make it work children with SEND? And what would that look like?
- The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Needs work to be fair to children with SEND
- Law Commission Review: Fixing a ‘bafflingly complex’ disabled children’s social care system
- Parents of disabled children traumatised by the public bodies that should be supporting them
- Election manifestos 2024: What’s on offer for children and young people with SEND?
- Uncovering the hidden truth about SEND safety valve agreements and how they’ll cut children’s SEND provision
- More system “reform” won’t fix SEND, because the real problem still hasn’t been accepted
- The Law Commission Review of disabled children’s social care legislation: How you can be involved
- Expert group recommends reducing SEND Tribunal appeals by getting decisions right first time
- Is the Government rationing EHC plans?
- Will non-statutory National Standards improve SEND or just create confusion and more unlawful behaviour?
- A failure of Children and Families Act implementation does not mean rip it up and start again m’luds
- Why children with SEND in penal detention routinely fail to be given educational needs support
- Could the SEND Review’s “big ideas” wither on the vine of political uncertainty?
- New SEND Minister, Kelly Tolhurst: many responsibilities but none so important as disabled children’s futures
- Quince back on board with SEND as the Education Committee sends a shot across the bows
- Behaviour management in schools: legally, the playing field has not been levelled
- #SENDReview Chapter 2 under the microscope: National standards, EHCP changes, and limiting choice
- We don’t need ”fundamental SEND reform”. Just sharpen the teeth of the legal system we already have.
- Mr Zahawi: Publish the SEND Review—but make sure it solves the RIGHT problem
- The SEND Tribunal single appeal route works. DfE must give families certainty it’s here to stay
- Minister admits legal entitlements for children with SEND are “up for review”
- Children’s Social Care Review: Are disabled children ‘someone else’s’ problem?
- Why does Josh’s review seem to think disabled children are “Not Known to Social Care”?
- MPs call on the government to act quickly on home education register
- SEND Inquiry report Part 2: No more reviews, it’s time to ACT
- SEND Review: A game-changer or playing politics with vulnerable children?
- First-time minister given one of the toughest jobs in government: Fixing the #SENDcrisis
- SEND success is a journey, apparently, one with no end in sight
- Poor leadership and SEND law ignorance fails disabled children
- My “control freak’s guide” for my disabled daughter’s dignity and care in hospital
- Partnering with clinicians to reverse Rett, my daughter’s rare disease
- Fighting for my disabled child’s right to summer fun
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