Mr Bates vs The Post Office is the equivalent of the SEND Crisis. Lives destroyed The injustice The imbalance of power The assumption of wrongdoing The gaslighting The never-ending blame games The tribunals without accountability The Deny, Delay, Deflect, Dispose games

School is upon us next week. Many children and young people are out of education, employment or training. Lenghty tribunals, no ARs, phase transfers. Health issues affecting our families. Endless hurdles. Clickbait news leaks. Choose your HARD. SEND Reforms = Human rights

Happy New Year To You All ❤️

New: Ofsted’s apparent failings on Mossbourne inspection appear part of a pattern https://t.co/UlvUvL7LkE

New: Teachers at world-famous hospital school complain of “toxic” working environment which has seen them out on 14 days of strike https://t.co/Olu8aVUtHx Great Ormond Street Hospital’s school has seen four members of staff, including 3 SLT, suspended in recent weeks.

New: Two-school academy trust bidding to cut teaching assistant pay by “up to £4,000 per year” – despite reserves of nearly £4 million https://t.co/rheNMehE0Y NEU members at Woodfield, a special school in Brent, north London, will reach ninth day of strike action this week.

"DfE's newly published pupil experience data should stop us all in our tracks... The child isn’t broken, the system around them is." https://t.co/KNtrtTqo63

I’ve spent $1000 on PectaSol this month. Gave them to: - My Mom who’s detoxing mercury - One of our child cancer patients - My best friend stabilizing mast cells - My dad who goes shooting a bunch And more. Every single person loves it and feels better. I take the pectaclear

Schools are being asked to do more with less. Workforce is stretched beyond measure. Staff leaving at unprecedented levels, work and conditions regularly cited, an indicator of toxic stress fuelling burnout driving people away. Another word for toxic stress is vicarious

Why is Keir Starmer so hellbent on digital ID? Two words: Tony Blair. At @thenerve_news we’ve tracked Blair’s influence - & his billionaire backer Larry Ellison - behind a policy that nobody asked for & almost nobody wants. 1/

Anne Longfield has been announced as chair of the Inquiry into Grooming Gangs. Far more important than the identity of the Chair is what happens with the inquiry's recommendations. Will they be ignored, as so often in the past? https://t.co/4JlJsQWYEq

Anyone who refuses to accept they were wrong, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, should not be in a position where the safety of children is in their hands. If your need to be right trumps your duty to safeguard, you need to step away from a role in education or care.

Teachers: The review of Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy is of national importance. It demonstrates the damage that can be done to the wellbeing of children if the checks and balances to prevent it are not allowed to operate, and performance trumps pastoral care. How many more?

I sincerely hope that those who attacked @AnnaFazack1 for her article on Mossbourne are given additional safeguarding training by their respective institutions, because their instant dismissal of what turned out to be valid concerns is a safeguarding 🚩

Today, a long-awaited report has been published on a London school following the conclusion of the Local Child Safeguarding Review into culture, policy and practice. For almost a decade, our work has focussed on raising red flags around the impact of zero tolerance behaviour

Report is forensically devastating on Ofsted's report on the school. Sadly this has seemed par for the course for @ofstednews in recent years. So long as results are good and behaviour policies are strict, it's just not interested.

Reading and digesting the safeguarding review on Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy. TES headline below is most insightful of three I've seen so far:

Understanding and measuring caregiver-reported quality of life among minimally verbal autistic children with intellectual disability https://t.co/MqyliH6F2o Important. But easier to just say 'profound autism' over 'minimally verbal' or "with significant intellectual disability"?

Using social media may impair children’s attention https://t.co/QeA0HP7m3x Not sure any child aged 9-10 should be anywhere near social media. A whole world of other things for kids to do aside from scrolling through the feed of some random on TikTok.

@SchoolsWeek Always with the victim blaming. Much easier than tackling the broken system

“when living standards are stalling and public services failing, society turns on a minority said to be having it easy at taxpayer expense” https://t.co/JrqBUurLv9