Tania Tirraoro
@tanialt.bsky.social
Founder @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social, writer, #autistic, #SaveOurChildrensRights, #SENDsky #EhlersDanlos #Disability #ChildrensRights, Devoted Grandma #wheelchair user #chronicpain
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Tania Tirraoro
@tanialt.bsky.social
· Nov 17
My #SEND list bsky.app/profile/did:...
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NEW GIVEAWAY: We have THREE copies of this important book to give away. @catrionamoore.bsky.social reviews Understanding Parent Blame: Institutional failure and complex trauma by Prof. Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello www.specialneedsjungle.com/u...
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW GIVEAWAY: We have THREE copies of this important book to give away. @catrionamoore.bsky.social reviews Understanding Parent Blame: Institutional failure and complex trauma by Prof. Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello www.specialneedsjungle.com/u...
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The way SEND registers are used to identify and support students with additional needs is a “mystery” that needs clarifying before schools can be judged on inclusion, experts are warning. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
SEND register decisions are a ‘mystery’, warn experts
Lack of guidance on using the SEND register leaves schools under- and over-recording pupils as needing support for special educational needs and disabilities, say leaders
www.tes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The way SEND registers are used to identify and support students with additional needs is a “mystery” that needs clarifying before schools can be judged on inclusion, experts are warning. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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NEW POST: SNJ's @rachel.stopsafetyvalve.uk on keeping your composure when managing challenging interviews with people who've been taken in by SEND misinformation www.specialneedsjungle.com/c...
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW POST: SNJ's @rachel.stopsafetyvalve.uk on keeping your composure when managing challenging interviews with people who've been taken in by SEND misinformation www.specialneedsjungle.com/c...
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Finally got round to writing about this. We're not making enough progress with challenging educational disadvantage. We should pick key areas that face wicked problems, suspend how we normally do things, and try radical collaboration:
open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...
open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Finally got round to writing about this. We're not making enough progress with challenging educational disadvantage. We should pick key areas that face wicked problems, suspend how we normally do things, and try radical collaboration:
open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...
open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...
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Our free EYSEND workshops are continuing throughout the Autumn Term!📆
Join us and learn how to give families the tools to support their child’s communication skills💬👩👩👧👦
Learn more and book your place: https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/training-courses/eysend-partnership/
Join us and learn how to give families the tools to support their child’s communication skills💬👩👩👧👦
Learn more and book your place: https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/training-courses/eysend-partnership/
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our free EYSEND workshops are continuing throughout the Autumn Term!📆
Join us and learn how to give families the tools to support their child’s communication skills💬👩👩👧👦
Learn more and book your place: https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/training-courses/eysend-partnership/
Join us and learn how to give families the tools to support their child’s communication skills💬👩👩👧👦
Learn more and book your place: https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/training-courses/eysend-partnership/
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I think my child has a special educational need. What can I do? Read this, then add your tips! www.specialneedsjungle.com/c...
I think my child has a special educational need. What can I do? - Special Needs Jungle
If you suspect your child has a special educational need or disability, here are some helpful tips and advice about how to approach it
www.specialneedsjungle.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I think my child has a special educational need. What can I do? Read this, then add your tips! www.specialneedsjungle.com/c...
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NEW POST: The privacy dangers for children and their families in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Rose Arnold of campaign group Reclaim Rights for Children explains why they're concerned www.specialneedsjungle.com/p...
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW POST: The privacy dangers for children and their families in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Rose Arnold of campaign group Reclaim Rights for Children explains why they're concerned www.specialneedsjungle.com/p...
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SEND REFORM: IT'S NOT (JUST) ABOUT THE MONEY.
"No amount of funding can “put things right” because a rotten system can never be “right”... [It's] a “uniquely bad system … which guarantees conflict” [and] is also ruinously expensive."
BLOG POST
johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/s...
"No amount of funding can “put things right” because a rotten system can never be “right”... [It's] a “uniquely bad system … which guarantees conflict” [and] is also ruinously expensive."
BLOG POST
johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/s...
SEND Reform: It’s not (just) about the money…
Another day, another article about how the cost of provision for pupils with special needs (SEND) is bankrupting the country. This morning (Friday 31st October 2025) I read in the Guardian about a …
johncosgrove55.wordpress.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
SEND REFORM: IT'S NOT (JUST) ABOUT THE MONEY.
"No amount of funding can “put things right” because a rotten system can never be “right”... [It's] a “uniquely bad system … which guarantees conflict” [and] is also ruinously expensive."
BLOG POST
johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/s...
"No amount of funding can “put things right” because a rotten system can never be “right”... [It's] a “uniquely bad system … which guarantees conflict” [and] is also ruinously expensive."
BLOG POST
johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/s...
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The final report of the independent ADHD Taskforce has found the condition is under-recognised, under-diagnosed, and under-treated, warning of an urgent need for major changes across the NHS. www.pslhub.org/learn/patient...
NHS England: Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1 (20 June 2025)
This report provides initial evidence-informed recommendations for ADHD
www.pslhub.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The final report of the independent ADHD Taskforce has found the condition is under-recognised, under-diagnosed, and under-treated, warning of an urgent need for major changes across the NHS. www.pslhub.org/learn/patient...
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It is 2025 - we really shouldn't need a petition for this!
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
This petition is going viral on other platforms.
Let's share and allow our children human rights.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
This petition is going viral on other platforms.
Let's share and allow our children human rights.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day
Make it mandatory for schools to allow students to go to the toilet at all times throughout the school day when they need to and do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times...
petition.parliament.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It is 2025 - we really shouldn't need a petition for this!
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
This petition is going viral on other platforms.
Let's share and allow our children human rights.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
This petition is going viral on other platforms.
Let's share and allow our children human rights.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Are you getting Universal Credit as a carer but also have health problems of your own?
Find out about the new rules, join our webinar for parents, on 13th November 10 am -11.15am
Find out about the new rules, join our webinar for parents, on 13th November 10 am -11.15am
Webinar on cuts to the Universal Credit health element
Eventbrite - Contact - for families with disabled children presents Webinar on cuts to the Universal Credit health element - Thursday, 13 November 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
f.mtr.cool
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Are you getting Universal Credit as a carer but also have health problems of your own?
Find out about the new rules, join our webinar for parents, on 13th November 10 am -11.15am
Find out about the new rules, join our webinar for parents, on 13th November 10 am -11.15am
I wrote about the sector response and some of our own thoughts…
NEW POST: Yesterday, the year-long Curriculum and Assessment Review—and the Government response—were published. But what's in it to help children with SEND—and what do support organisations think? @tanialt.bsky.social explains more: www.specialneedsjungle.com/c...
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I wrote about the sector response and some of our own thoughts…
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📢 We have BIG news. The curriculum review released today states that all schools should focus more on teaching talking, including children who communicate through sign language and other communication aids.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📢 We have BIG news. The curriculum review released today states that all schools should focus more on teaching talking, including children who communicate through sign language and other communication aids.
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Brilliant analysis from @captaink77.bsky.social
NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social gives a stark warning that reforms for #SEND funding reforms will be immensely painful—but the current situation is chaotic and sinking fast. www.specialneedsjungle.com/s... #SENDsky
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Brilliant analysis from @captaink77.bsky.social
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NEW POST: Eleanor Wright of SEND legal Charity SOSSEN explores the real reasons transport costs are so high, what the law says, and what your child is entitled to www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW POST: Eleanor Wright of SEND legal Charity SOSSEN explores the real reasons transport costs are so high, what the law says, and what your child is entitled to www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future 8 years old truer than ever “the best we can hope for, probably, is to create a society that tries hard not to leave people out.“ www.theguardian.com/books/2017/m...
Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future
From Mary Shelley to Margaret Atwood, feminist science fiction writers have imagined other ways of living that prompt us to ask, could we do things differently?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future 8 years old truer than ever “the best we can hope for, probably, is to create a society that tries hard not to leave people out.“ www.theguardian.com/books/2017/m...
Truth
Disability is a minority group you can join at any time
Many of us were “young & otherwise healthy” when we became ill
We were working & couldn’t imagine being unable to earn a living
We didn’t plan to become disabled. We didn’t plan to stop working
It can happen to anyone
Many of us were “young & otherwise healthy” when we became ill
We were working & couldn’t imagine being unable to earn a living
We didn’t plan to become disabled. We didn’t plan to stop working
It can happen to anyone
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Truth
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Support Autistic people through better understanding of communication, sensory needs & double empathy. Free Resources
https://autisticrealms.com/understanding-the-double-empathy-problem-a-guide-for-autistic-families/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://autisticrealms.com/understanding-the-double-empathy-problem-a-guide-for-autistic-families/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Support Autistic people through better understanding of communication, sensory needs & double empathy. Free Resources
https://autisticrealms.com/understanding-the-double-empathy-problem-a-guide-for-autistic-families/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
https://autisticrealms.com/understanding-the-double-empathy-problem-a-guide-for-autistic-families/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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NEW POST: @catrionamoore.bsky.social dissects a new report from the @nao.org.uk that tells the Government to improve its data on schools and SEND transport—and ensure any coming changes don't make it harder for disabled children to attend: www.specialneedsjungle.com/n...
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW POST: @catrionamoore.bsky.social dissects a new report from the @nao.org.uk that tells the Government to improve its data on schools and SEND transport—and ensure any coming changes don't make it harder for disabled children to attend: www.specialneedsjungle.com/n...
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NEW POST: @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social says LAs’ “lawbreaking, gaslighting and lying” is wrecking thousands of children’s lives. The MP writes the second of our articles about testimony gathered and #MeasureWhatMatters, evidencing LAs' unlawful behaviour www.specialneedsjungle.com/c... #SENDSky
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW POST: @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social says LAs’ “lawbreaking, gaslighting and lying” is wrecking thousands of children’s lives. The MP writes the second of our articles about testimony gathered and #MeasureWhatMatters, evidencing LAs' unlawful behaviour www.specialneedsjungle.com/c... #SENDSky
Yesterday, we met the new SEND Minister, Georgia Gould MP. We restated that the law is sound and needs to be properly implemented & complied with. We also discussed the need for another independent supporters prog, to liaise between parents and LA. Minister Gould said she was keen to work with us
📣 SNJ & IPSEA yesterday met SEND Minister Georgia Gould. We restated the law must be retained & fully implemented in deed, culture ➕ sustainable funding. Getting more disabled adults into work starts with being fully included in education. The Minister said she’s keen to work with us
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday, we met the new SEND Minister, Georgia Gould MP. We restated that the law is sound and needs to be properly implemented & complied with. We also discussed the need for another independent supporters prog, to liaise between parents and LA. Minister Gould said she was keen to work with us
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Reeves and Labour are lying to you. Welfare spending isn't "spiralling".
Reeves refuses to apologise for repeating false claim that social security spending is spiralling
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to withdraw a misleading and inaccurate statement that scapegoated disabled people and other benefit claimants for the country’s economic problems. In an interv…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Reeves and Labour are lying to you. Welfare spending isn't "spiralling".
Inset day today which probably means a trip to soft play. With the grandsons (3 & 5) obv, not by myself. 🤔
a woman sits on a yellow toy car next to a child wearing a shirt that says ' disney ' on it
ALT: a woman sits on a yellow toy car next to a child wearing a shirt that says ' disney ' on it
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Inset day today which probably means a trip to soft play. With the grandsons (3 & 5) obv, not by myself. 🤔
I’ve been saying this for years, now MWM has the collated the evidence to back it up
NEW POST: Independent public accountability initiative, Measure What Matters writes an excoriating, evidence-backed article that the law on #SEND isn’t failing, it’s been systematically undermined from within. Please consider sharing with your MP:
www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...
www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...
October 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I’ve been saying this for years, now MWM has the collated the evidence to back it up