Emma K
@emmachanUK
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I home educate my brilliant Autistic daughter who was failed by the mainstream system. I write when I can, love family history, Japan and books.
Oxford
Joined December 2012
The LGA knows that soaring SEND costs are not the cause: they are the *consequence* of decade-long central govt underinvestment and a system that too often has to be dragged kicking and screaming to provide support. Let's not blame disabled children for state failure.
The local government association has warned councils could be forced to declare themselves bankrupt because of the soaring cost of SEND provision. Figures due to be released tomorrow are expected to show a steep rise in the number of families lodging appeals at tribunals in
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Who wouldn’t be hecking delighted to wake up Christmas morning to all these treats?! 😍 It could be you 🥳 This is my last Shot in the Dark giveaway before Christmas - make sure you’re following me and retweet to enter 🧡 Closes 18th Dec at 12pm. UK only. Stocking not included 😂
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Shot in the Dark has been out in the world for ONE HECKING MONTH - can you believe it?! 🤯 To celebrate, I’m doing a giveaway of a signed copy and some other goodies 😍 To enter, make sure you’re following me and retweet 🧡 UK only. Finishing 27/11 at 11am 🤓
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I just can't fathom why anyone would do this....
The devastating news that a person has cut down the tree at #sycamoregap on #Hadrianswall is completely symbolic of the state of self destruction that England is in at the moment. I can only think they must be mad and in possession of a chainsaw simultaneously I despair
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Once upon a time, children were strapped for using their left hand instead of t right. They were caned for slow reading. Now they are given detention for wrong colour socks. All of this is immoral. These are decisions devoid of morality. It’s #power , not education.
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If our educations system struggle to teach our young people we all thrive in different ways then the least I can do is show this at home. Let's light our own way x
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While Ofsted inspectors are going round schools telling teachers that Early Years children mustn't read books with 'non-decodable' texts, parents who use libraries and buy books are having great fun reading books with their children at home...
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@Keir_Starmer Does absolutely everything need to be linked to workplace skills? Why not allow children to access something that is merely about joy, expression, enrichment, opportunity, creativity, sensory input? To all in politics: stop commodifying our kids. Stop commodifying childhood.
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If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight. Please take just two seconds to show you care.
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I've seldom heard about anything nastier than Robert Jenrick's order to paint over the pictures in the asylum centre. Cold, cruel, the act of a soul that's shrivelled and mean to its core. How can he look in the mirror? Utter moral emptiness.
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GIVEAWAY ALERT! #Win a set of the novels shortlisted for the 2023 #WilburSmith #AdventureWritingPrize #BestPublishedNovel award! Like & retweet this post to enter. UK entrants only. The winner will be chosen at random and announced 17.07.23. Good luck! #BookGiveaway #BookTwitter
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It really is a story you won't forget. Nicola is a friend and her story of recovery as a family has helped and inspired me no end.
Do come and join us. Hers is a story you won't forget. Yes, it's recorded.
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She unschooled him and his sister. Their story is in my new book, A Different Way to Learn, and Nicola and I are doing a webinar next Wednesday to talk about her story and their recovery as a family. We'll show her short video and talk about their journey. 3/
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It was awful. He couldn't cope. He wasn't the same as he was before, but everyone kept saying that he must keep going to school. One day he made a wish - to stop going to school - and Nicola granted it. 2/
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When Nicola's son was eight, he was kicked in the head by a horse. He had a fractured skull, but after he was discharged from hospital she was told to send him back to school. 1/
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Only 14% of secondary teachers have had more than half a day of training on autism according to @Autism new Education Report. 73% of autistic pupils in the UK are in mainstream schools. All teachers are teaching autistic pupils. https://t.co/Y9JREicdV4
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Only 14 per cent of secondary school teachers have had more than half a day’s autism training, survey finds
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Children with special needs are being failed. Parents, like me, have a right to be furious. @JimMooreJourno in the Independent https://t.co/HQYQ7DKioZ Thanks for the quote from our post:
specialneedsjungle.com
A parent on her experience of professionals parent-blaming to avoid accountability for their mistakes and why it’s a human rights issue
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'The treatment of SEND children and their parents is shameful. It ought to be a stain on the nation’s conscience.'
Children with special needs are being failed. You bet I’m furious Me for @IndyVoices on the parent blaming epidemic #SEND @teamsquarepeg @SpcialNdsJungle
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Looks like there are no Conservative councillors left on the Vale of White Horse District Council in Oxfordshire. We have also taken majority control of South Oxfordshire. I can’t believe I just wrote this.
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