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10/06/2025

10/05/2025

10/05/2025

Yasmin has shared this with us and it looks to be a wonderful book that she has written. Fantastic! 📖

09/22/2025

Are you tired of trying to get the basic support your child deserves in school?

Have you been back and forth with your local authority to nail down your child's EHCP?

Have you had your child's sickness marked as unauthorised?

Are you being told by your school that "every day counts" and missing school even for 1 day will cause your child to be stupid?

Does your school buy into the ridiculous "attendance rewards", and ignore the fact that children get sick sometimes?

These pressures are all coming from the Department for Education. However, the statutory guidance states that all absence due to illness should always be marked as authorised under code 'I', and that schools should not have blanket policies for authorising or unauthorising absences.

Schools - please think before implementing discriminatory and ableist policies. Statutory guidance trumps school policy every time.

Speak out! Write to the DfE - Mindless obedience makes you complicit in the corruption that is "attendance before everything else".

Would you walk into a burning fire just because someone in authority told you to? I would guess you wouldn't, but just because these scenarios don't involve something so blatantly dangerous, it doesn't mean that the repercussions of following these harmful ideas are any less dangerous for a child's mental health and wellbeing.

09/21/2025

“A huge rebellion is coming - we will fight for our children’s rights”

Last week was huge for SEND: families rallying outside Parliament, over 90 MPs debating our petition and overwhelmingly backing the protection of legal rights, and the Education Select Committee publishing its 'Solving the SEND crisis' report, stating: “The SEND reforms must not be based on any withdrawal of statutory entitlements for children and young people with SEND.”

Our campaign partner John Harris reflects on this in The Guardian today, concluding: “I would like to think the same sentiments have surfaced in the education department. In only a matter of weeks, we will see. But in the meantime, for millions of people all too used to silence and slow service, the wait goes on.”

🔗 Read John’s piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/21/uk-ministers-rebellion-coming-children-special-needs



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[Image description: Screenshot of Guardian opinion piece by John Harris titled “After last week, UK ministers should know this: a huge rebellion is coming - we will fight for our children’s rights" Subheading: “From mooted Whitehall cost-cutting to the bigoted views of Reform, parents of children with special needs see the latest threats, and we are mobilising"

09/18/2025

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09/15/2025

📢 Do you know how much your Local Authority has lost in school funding?

New data compiled by shows that 146 out of 151 Local Authorities have less funding in real terms than in 2010.

That’s teachers, support staff and vital learning resources cut from schools up and down the country.

Find out how much your Local Authority has lost now: schoolcuts.org.uk

09/15/2025

14 NHS trusts at the centre of national maternity investigation named
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-14/14-nhs-trust-at-the-centre-of-national-maternity-investigation-named