PACT Parents And Carers Together

15/04/2026

Wow! What a forward-thinking, mentally healthy and inclusive idea from Devon!! 💜🫶🏼 This really should have been happening across the country for years (if access to education was equitable)

Home-educated children offered free GCSEs

The pilot aims to reduce some barriers students in Devon and Cornwall face accessing key exams.

15/04/2026

with PACT this Thursday April 16th. Join us for a hot drink at 10am in the cafe, safe space to chat and discuss all things and followed by a stroll around the lake, boosting your , lowering your cortisol and increasing your seratonin 🧠☀️

11/04/2026

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09/04/2026

Come and join our fabulous team and help us provide vital support to women from across Suffolk affected by domestic abuse.

For more information and to apply please visit our website www.lighthousewa.org.uk

07/04/2026

Children’s mental health in this country is not just struggling… it’s being sidelined. Dismissed, Minimised and Explained away for instance we have been told “children don’t suffer with their mental health, what have they got to worry about?!”

The moment a child is autistic, or has ADHD, or is otherwise neurodivergent, their mental health is no longer treated as mental health. It’s labelled as “part of their condition.” As if anxiety, burnout, distress, or emotional breakdowns are just something they should live with.
CAMHS don’t want to see them. Referrals get rejected but you’ll have a while before you even know this! Families are told, “this is because they’re autistic,” as if that somehow makes it less urgent, less real!
And that is not just wrong… it’s dangerous.

Being autistic does not automatically mean a child will have poor mental health. But living in a world that excludes you, misunderstands you, overwhelms you, and constantly asks you to be someone you’re not? That’s what damages mental health.

That’s what causes anxiety, That’s what causes shutdowns and That’s what causes children to break down especially those with unmet needs in education.

Inclusion isn’t a buzzword you shove on your schools policy It’s supposed to be protection. Because when children feel safe, understood, and supported they cope. When they are forced into environments that don’t meet their needs quite simply they don’t.

And yet here we are, with reforms and a white paper pushing more children into mainstream settings that are already underfunded, overstretched, and unable to meet need. More pressure. Less support equals Worse outcomes.

Children who need specialist settings won’t get them, or it will take even longer to get and Children who need alternative provision won’t access it. Children who need education outside of school for their mental health will be forced back in. And we will call it “inclusion.” For f***s sake. It isn’t inclusion if it harms. It isn’t support if it breaks them, It isn’t education if they’re in survival mode all the time!

So I have to ask does the government truly understand the damage this is doing?
Because families do, Children do. We are living it day in and day out and truly it’s disgusting.

Listen to parents and Listen to children.
Fund mental health services properly, Stop rejecting neurodivergent children from support and Stop forcing children into environments that are making them unwell.

This constant push for attendance is damaging children and parents, honestly the damage done to so many through threats of fines and prison when it’s not us failing IT IS THE SYSTEM!!!

Because this is not a policy debate this is children’s lives they’re not numbers to debate they are really people with futures!
And if nothing changes, the harm being done will continue for the next generation and manifest in ways that I dread to think about.

Michaela
Stories of CAMHs
School Fines Campaign
Stop the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Lizz Mears

06/04/2026

We've made 15k in 11 days! 🥳🎉

Thank you everyone for signing and sharing. 🙌

However, we've still got a long way to go to hit 100k. Please keep sharing, tag your MP and let them know why these fines and prosecutions need to stop!

03/04/2026

Inclusion is when everyone can stay in the classroom for everything.
That’s inclusion.
Not leaving the room
and being told you can join your friends later at lunch or break.
I keep hearing that children can go to inclusion bases
and then just “rejoin their friends”.
But I don’t think that comes from standing in someone else’s shoes.
Because if you actually stood in that child’s shoes,
you’d know it’s not that simple.
You’d know what it feels like to walk out of the classroom
while everyone else stays.
To miss the joke that everyone laughed at.
To miss that shared moment.
To come back in and not quite get it.
Slightly behind.
Slightly out of sync.
To walk into the playground
and try to find where you fit.
You can’t just step back into friendships like nothing happened.
Inclusion isn’t something you dip in and out of.
It’s something you feel.
And if a child has to keep leaving the room to cope,
then we need to ask honestly—
have we really included them at all?

03/04/2026

It's time Autism Awareness became Autism Acceptance.

03/04/2026

A new Youth Hub will open in Ipswich, bringing employment support, careers advice, apprenticeships, and mental health services under one roof for young people aged 16–24.

02/04/2026

Good luck to this new venture, opening soon. Can’t wait to visit ☕️💜

We've had a refresh of the logo and finally I can say we are opening soon. I don't have an exact date but we are hoping for it to be sometime in April 🤞🏼 but as soon as I know you will all be the 1st to know!
I cannot wait to welcome you all!!
I'm so excited 😆

02/04/2026

Looks great 🐕 🌲 ☕️