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This. 🔥
This succinctly sums up everything I’ve been feeling and thinking over the past few days. The rhetoric being spouted is highly insensitive, damaging and just plain wrong. If a change of Gov & Ed Sec has done no good, then praps a change of @educationgovuk leadership is needed?
This succinctly sums up everything I’ve been feeling and thinking over the past few days. The rhetoric being spouted is highly insensitive, damaging and just plain wrong. If a change of Gov & Ed Sec has done no good, then praps a change of @educationgovuk leadership is needed?
@bphillipsonMP I'm intrigued to find out how Tom Bennett is going to "drive change", given that he's been flogging the same ideas for the last 10 years, and they helped deliver this: theguardian.com/education/2025…
Today I took my autistic son, who also has ARFID, to Chessington, while juggling the needs of my other kids. Some people think autism is “bad behaviour” or “poor parenting.” This is what it’s really like. 🧵
@NickGibbUK @routledgebooks Do you mention the retention crisis, falling apart schools, recruitment catastrophe, English children being the unhappiest, mental health crisis, behaviour crash, chumocracy, MAT salaries, desteuction of local democracy, collapse of the arts, awful and hated GCSE reforms …
The engagement, attendance and mental health crisis’ are all deeply entwined. The tyranny of merit is writ large in our myopic and blinkered education system. And it’s not working. Kids with gold plated degrees can’t get jobs. And if they do, employers say they lack the…
The engagement, attendance and mental health crisis’ are all deeply entwined. The tyranny of merit is writ large in our myopic and blinkered education system. And it’s not working. Kids with gold plated degrees can’t get jobs. And if they do, employers say they lack the…
Prof Myhill, Professor Emerita at the University of Exeter and one of 40 experts listed in the document as having been consulted, told me she had contributed to the review only to send back detailed concerns about it.
Thank you to Steve Boggan for covering our recent research findings. See: The shaming of SEND families @unherd unherd.com/2025/07/the-sh… @bphillipsonMP @NotFineinSchool @educationgovuk @SEND_Action @SpcialNdsJungle @CarrieGrant1 @Define_Fine_PS @_MissingTheMark
New: English pupils’ absence from school is because of “design failure” in the education system, psychologists warn educationuncovered.co.uk/news/english-p… Children’s school experiences “key factor” in rising levels of mental ill health, letter signed by 300 psychologists states.
Every child needs play. It’s not a luxury. It’s how children learn, grow, and thrive. But play is being locked away, by policy, pressure, and politics. Let’s change that. 📢 Share this. 🧱 Use the hashtag #PlayMatters ✊ Voice for early childhood. #EarlyYears
“The level of dishonesty is very hard to exaggerate” - @_Chris_Coghlan speaking out for children and young people with SEND and their families. #SaveOurChildrensRights
“The level of dishonesty is very hard to exaggerate” - @_Chris_Coghlan speaking out for children and young people with SEND and their families. #SaveOurChildrensRights
How is this not segregation by another name? How will kids in these units feel? How will they be safeguarded against bullying, discrimination & guaranteed equal opportunity of access to a broad curriculum including enrichment? How will these units ensure low expectations or…
How is this not segregation by another name? How will kids in these units feel? How will they be safeguarded against bullying, discrimination & guaranteed equal opportunity of access to a broad curriculum including enrichment? How will these units ensure low expectations or…
Sept 2025 🔥 Understanding Parent Blame by Dr Ana Aiello & Prof Luke Clements. Revealing how parents are wrongly blamed by the systems meant to help them. 👀 waterstones.com/book/understan… #ParentBlame #SocialJustice #DisabilityRights #Safeguarding #Inclusion #Neurodiversity
I’ve worked a lot on the welfare reform bill in recent months - in press, radio, and podcasts - but today’s column is everything I need to say:
A perplexing case study from @educationgovuk that couldn't illustrate more clearly why the law on support for children and young people with SEND doesn't need changing. ipsea.org.uk/blog/dfe-case-…
New: Teachers at super-strict academy told to hand out 25 detentions a week - whatever their pupils’ behaviour educationuncovered.co.uk/news/teachers-… Latest developments at Ark Alexandra Academy, in Hastings, East Sussex.
Lazy populism artificially dressed up as serious debate. If genuinely debating the challenges of growing up - parents and children deserve better…
Lazy populism artificially dressed up as serious debate. If genuinely debating the challenges of growing up - parents and children deserve better…
Since 2019, the number of issued fines in England has risen by 167%. No data exists for threats to fine. There is no right to appeal a fine. You have more right to appeal a parking or speeding ticket. There is no mediation or resolution mechanism. bbc.com/news/articles/…
Outdated patriarchal moral virtue signalling by any Government sermonising from a disconnected ivory tower about “much needed grit” in our children via the delivery of MHSTs in schools not only devalues and dehumanises the vital work access to counselling in schools affords, it…
teaching young children who live in poverty to show ‘grit’ is a classic, individualistic victim-blaming narrative which deflects attention away from structural injustices and pins responsibility on the most marginalised members of our society to undo their own oppression.
teaching young children who live in poverty to show ‘grit’ is a classic, individualistic victim-blaming narrative which deflects attention away from structural injustices and pins responsibility on the most marginalised members of our society to undo their own oppression.
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