By Emma McDonnell Emma McDonnell’s story is going to be familiar to many readers. “We don’t see that here,” or words to that effect, tell you they think you’re the …
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 …
A group of clinical psychologists working with children, young people, and families across the UK are calling for the Government to act on what they say is an “unprecedented mental …
A new report, Double Disadvantage, shows children with special educational needs (SEN) from low-income families are “facing major inequalities in access to support”. While this is obviously deeply unfair, it …
by Natalia James, University of Sussex Across UK schools, behaviour is increasingly monitored, scored and sanctioned. While some see behaviour-tracking as a way to promote order and consistency, for disabled …
Disabled children who need social care support face a confusing, outdated and unfair set of laws, which make it difficult, if not impossible, to access the care and support that …
by Amber Windsor, neurodivergent parent-carer and SEND campaigner Recently, right-wing think tank, Policy Exchange, decided to insert itself into the SEND arena with a report it claimed “identifies how poor incentives …
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 …
and Ana Laura Aiello, School of Law, Leeds University. Professor Luke Clements is the Cerebra Professor of Law and Social Justice, and Dr Ana Laura Aiello is the researcher on …
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the recent National Audit Office report into the “value for money” of the SEND system has exacerbated negative attitudes towards disabled children and …
“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 …
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 …
+++ Note this consultation closes on 6th September so don’t delay ++ A strong sense of despair and hopelessness comes over me whenever I am asked to respond to (yet …
with Alice Running and Danielle Jata-Hall Research of more than a thousand families of autistic children who also have Pathological Demand Avoidance profiles (PDA), has revealed what the authors say …
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 …
As the SEND Review Green Paper edges closer – maybe within a week – we decided to look into something that lots of parents have been talking about, not least …
and Dr Ana Laura Aiello Disabled children and their families are one of the world’s most severely disadvantaged groups and the UK is no exception. Why should this be – …
