Families of disabled children know all too well how easily a request for help can turn into scrutiny, suspicion or even a child protection investigation. It’s a pattern we’ve covered …
Measure What Matters is unwavering in its commitment to examining how democratic principles are upheld in practice—with a focus on representation, transparency, and accountability. This is what we were built …
This is part 2. You can find part 1 here. Our coverage of the Schools White Paper follows later today and all week Below is a selection of the testimonies …
On the day that the Schools White Paper is published, containing draft plans to reduce children’s rights, public accountability group, Measure What Matters is publishing the results of an investigation …
The Down Syndrome Act 2022 has been quietly making its way through the policy machine since it gained Royal Assent back in April 2022. It included a comprehensive call for …
By Jess Camburn Rahmani, CEO, Cerebra Last week, we shared a review and giveaway of a new book from Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello about parent blame. …
“Until my mid-40s, I was walking around in a myopic daze, still hanging on to the comforting belief that while flawed, the UK state was essentially reasonable and fair… I …
By Rose Arnold, Reclaim Rights for Children We’ve written twice before on SNJ about the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill currently going through Parliament. Today’s post looks at the privacy …
Guest Post By Dr Andy Bilson, Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire We’ve written a number of times about Fabricated or Induced Illness, where parents of children with …
By Dr Neil Alexander-Passe You may have heard of the school-to-prison pipeline, where often vulnerable teens have left, or been excluded from education, found themselves caught up in gangs and/or …
If you’re a parent of a child with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) or a home educator, you are likely to have heard of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools …
“Difficult people are usually having a difficult time.” This observation set the scene at a recent conference organised by the School of Law at the University of Leeds and the …
with Annette Maxwell, parent carer We have heard a number of distressing incidents of harm being caused to disabled children and young people in specialist day and residential settings over …
with Fiona Castle, SEND parent and campaigner Institutional gaslighting, lies, infliction of trauma and mental health breakdown… these are all behaviours that allowed the subpostmaster scandal to develop and persist …
by Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello There is considerable evidence to suggest that increasing numbers of parents are experiencing allegations that they have fabricated or actually induced …
For families of children and young people with SEND, social media is one of the greatest assets we have. It brings isolated families together, it gives us a chance to …
with Katherine Uher, parent and psychotherapist and Benji Uher We’ve run a number of articles that feature the injustice of staff in local authorities and health services using parent-blaming as …
with Sally Russell, Trustee, The PDA Society Scientific rigour in medicine is, thankfully, the rule rather than the exception. We want our medicines, procedures, and treatments to be based on …
False allegations of Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) are on the rise in the SEND community. Parent and Carer Alliance are offering a free webinar to help parents know how to protect themselves.
Coronavirus has divided Britain into those who are vulnerable and those who are not. But vulnerable means different things to different groups of people, and it’s important to still differentiate between vulnerable because of need and vulnerable because of risk, especially when talking about children with SEND
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