Writer; National #SEND Parent Advisor @SpcialNdsJungle founder; CoFounder #SaveOurChildrensRights; Devoted Grandma; #ActuallyAutistic; ♿#EhlersDanlos She/Her
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This lays bare the disgraceful plans to strip rights from vulnerable children and their families. This cannot be right @LucyMPowell @andyburnham
NEW POST: An Unacceptable Truth: The 20 legal rights at risk from the @educationgovuk #SEND reforms. We've set out all the rights disabled children and their families face losing or having reduced. If you don't want this, take action: specialneedsjungle.com/unacc… @LucyMPowell
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On SNJ Today: A raft of government-commissioned research reports has brought to light evidence sounding the alarm that mainstream SEND capacity is not where it needs to be to make its SEND proposals a success. specialneedsjungle.com/gover…
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NEW POST: The government must not ignore stark warnings about lack of mainstream SEND capacity reported by its own research. @TaniaLT waded through them so you don't have to: specialneedsjungle.com/gover…
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On SNJ Today: An autism assessment, whether NHS or private, should produce a detailed, specific report. Clinical Psychologist Dr Charlie Bamford explains what really makes an autism assessment useful to schools and how parents can be prepared specialneedsjungle.com/what-…
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NEW POST: With so much focus on Autism and ADHD assessment, we hear from Clinical Psychologist Dr Charlie Bamford about what really makes an autism assessment useful to schools specialneedsjungle.com/what-…
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ON SNJ TODAY: The Government is big on ifelong learning, but what about for people with learning disabilities? One university research department is seeking to help by offering a course that teaches learning-disabled people about the world's "big ideas" specialneedsjungle.com/ideas…
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NEW POST: Big ideas belong to everyone: How adults with learning disabilities can access a new course about the world delivered by university lecturers specialneedsjungle.com/ideas…
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NEW: Ten years on, Prime Minister @andyburnham tells @campbellclaret & @RoryStewartUK that there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote.
FINALLY after years of cover-ups & denials from the highest levels of the UK govt. That in itself deserves an inquiry.
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It’s not just the government that covered up Russian interference in Brexit. The press also played its part. This is one of the only times I was ever interviewed on the subject… by US media.
Here it is. This is the clip from yesterday's @CNN interview where I'm asked - for first time ever - about Brexit-Trump-Russia.
"These vital questions of national security have been interpreted as about politics. And it's not about politics. It's about power. And about Putin."
By me
NEW POST: As The Guardian prints our joint Save Our Children's Rights campaign's open letter, it's clear people with lived experience don't want to lose SEND rights. Why won't the Government listen? specialneedsjungle.com/guard…
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NEW POST: How do you ensure pathways to education, health, and social care support, meet both diagnosis and needs? An invitation to offer views on a new discussion paper specialneedsjungle.com/pathw…
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Nigel Farage and Reform UK want to
- leave the European Convention on Human Rights which protects our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials and so much more
- repeal the Equality Act - a key piece of legislation that prevents against discrimination in Britain
- Strip back workers rights
- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts and Legalize "fire and rehire" tactics
- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” that allow landlords to remove tenants without giving a reason and introduces new duties over health hazards
and to sell all this to the country Farage offers nothing in return but grievance and division. PLEASE DON’T FALL FOR IT.
That anyone could be supporting Farage and Reform with these policies must surely be a damning indictment of UK media in failing to explain all this to the public
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And this is *exactly* why we need independent journalism, folks. And the only hope of that is if people pay for it. This is not news, it's propaganda.
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For the last four decades, politicians of all parties have repeated told us the only way to spark economic growth is to cut benefits, cut taxes and deregulate business. It hasn't worked; there are no signs it ever will.
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NEW POST: Researching flexi-schooling: How beneficial is it for children with SEND? We hear from an expert who's conducted multiple studies: specialneedsjungle.com/resea…
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On SNJ Today: @TaniaLT writes about what we need you to do next and asks, if 100,000 people agree with young campaigner, Tee-Jay, that SEND rights must be retained, why is the Government persisting with its unwelcome plans? specialneedsjungle.com/gover…
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On SNJ this week we heard from a specialist occupational therapist about concerns over who will be considered as a SEND Expert at Hand: specialneedsjungle.com/exper…
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Without Words: The first post from SNJ's brilliant columnist, @catrionamoore13 on her own new Substack, following the unimaginable loss of her beautiful daughter Amy, who had Rett syndrome: What is the word for someone who has lost a child?" withoutwordsjournal.substack…
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After our article from Measure What Matters they’ve smashed their initial CrowdJustice target but still need your help to pursue SEND accountability: When the law says “must”, local authorities cannot treat it as “maybe” specialneedsjungle.com/crowd…
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NEW POST: Oops, we did it again... @TaniaLT writes about the amazing feat you helped young campaigner, Tee-Jay achieve that says the Government MUST listen to more than 100,000 people who don't want to lose SEND rights specialneedsjungle.com/gover…
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