Dr Dan Lake
@drdanlake.bsky.social
Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist (SEMH). Trainee Dad, proud northerner, long-suffering Blade ⚔️. Expert by experience.
Usually found chatting about EBSNA/barriers to education.
Usually found chatting about EBSNA/barriers to education.
Please share! 🤩💚👇🏻
We’re very excited to share that the Barriers to Education website has officially launched: lnkd.in/e5vmcDaQ
The website has been created to bring parents, carers and professionals together with practical, compassionate approaches that make a real difference.
The website has been created to bring parents, carers and professionals together with practical, compassionate approaches that make a real difference.
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Please share! 🤩💚👇🏻
The Barriers to Education website is now live! 🤩
Promoting education that feels positive and inclusive for all.
Feeling very fortunate to have contributed along the way, alongside the best of folk.
A massive well done @spectrumgaming.bsky.social and all involved 💚
Please share far and wide! 👇🏻
Promoting education that feels positive and inclusive for all.
Feeling very fortunate to have contributed along the way, alongside the best of folk.
A massive well done @spectrumgaming.bsky.social and all involved 💚
Please share far and wide! 👇🏻
Welcome to Barriers to Education
Practical resources and the WARMTH framework to help young people overcome barriers to school and thrive academically and emotionally.
barrierstoeducation.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The Barriers to Education website is now live! 🤩
Promoting education that feels positive and inclusive for all.
Feeling very fortunate to have contributed along the way, alongside the best of folk.
A massive well done @spectrumgaming.bsky.social and all involved 💚
Please share far and wide! 👇🏻
Promoting education that feels positive and inclusive for all.
Feeling very fortunate to have contributed along the way, alongside the best of folk.
A massive well done @spectrumgaming.bsky.social and all involved 💚
Please share far and wide! 👇🏻
This feels like an important event - National Seminar on supporting fathers of young children with SEND. Free, online and relatively brief (1.5 hours). Please share.
tinyurl.com/mvspfevm
tinyurl.com/mvspfevm
National Seminar on supporting fathers of young children with SEND
Join this free, national conversation on how services engage with and support fathers and male carers of early years children with SEND
tinyurl.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This feels like an important event - National Seminar on supporting fathers of young children with SEND. Free, online and relatively brief (1.5 hours). Please share.
tinyurl.com/mvspfevm
tinyurl.com/mvspfevm
A fantastic day at Warwickshire's SEND and Inclusion Conference, including the opportunity to facilitate our 'unconferencing' discussion around attendance and engagement.
Positivity, togetherness, and a room full of good people who work bloody hard to support local CYP and families. 💚
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Positivity, togetherness, and a room full of good people who work bloody hard to support local CYP and families. 💚
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IMPACT, the Young Person's Forum for SEND – Warwickshire County Council
Impact provides an opportunity for young people aged 13-25 years with SEND to have their say and influence support in Warwickshire
www.warwickshire.gov.uk
September 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A fantastic day at Warwickshire's SEND and Inclusion Conference, including the opportunity to facilitate our 'unconferencing' discussion around attendance and engagement.
Positivity, togetherness, and a room full of good people who work bloody hard to support local CYP and families. 💚
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Positivity, togetherness, and a room full of good people who work bloody hard to support local CYP and families. 💚
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YES, Anna Maxwell Martin! 🙌🏻 Thank you for highlighting the tensions faced by CYP and families re. barriers to school #attendance, EBSA/EBSNA. And, for so clearly voicing the ethos, approach and attitudes we need to promote instead. 🤩
x.com/BBCr4today/s...
x.com/BBCr4today/s...
BBC Radio 4 Today on X: ""You can't physically chuck a 13-year-old over a school gate and say: ‘Go on, get in.’" Actor Anna Maxwell Martin, who's navigated the SEND system as a parent, tells #R4Today that attitude is just as important as funding to help support children with special educational needs. https://t.co/W2297Cthsr" / X
"You can't physically chuck a 13-year-old over a school gate and say: ‘Go on, get in.’" Actor Anna Maxwell Martin, who's navigated the SEND system as a parent, tells #R4Today that attitude is just as important as funding to help support children with special educational needs. https://t.co/W2297Cthsr
x.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
YES, Anna Maxwell Martin! 🙌🏻 Thank you for highlighting the tensions faced by CYP and families re. barriers to school #attendance, EBSA/EBSNA. And, for so clearly voicing the ethos, approach and attitudes we need to promote instead. 🤩
x.com/BBCr4today/s...
x.com/BBCr4today/s...
1 in 50 in London are currently homeless. There must be more than can be done/offered.
tinyurl.com/bdez2rtk
tinyurl.com/bdez2rtk
Reframing the myths and stereotypes of homelessness | BPS
Psychology student Maisy Gledhill visited a unique exhibition, ‘How To Survive The Apocalypse’ at the Museum of Homelessness.
tinyurl.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:24 AM
1 in 50 in London are currently homeless. There must be more than can be done/offered.
tinyurl.com/bdez2rtk
tinyurl.com/bdez2rtk
Important article on responses to homelessness, 'Our brains dehumanise homeless people'. Objectification, bystander effect, the attributions we make, political discourse. We have a shared responsibility to cultivate empathy, care, understanding, connection.
tinyurl.com/mrxwrhs4
tinyurl.com/mrxwrhs4
‘Our brains dehumanise homeless people’ | BPS
Lasana Harris is a Professor of Social Neuroscience at University College London. He tells Jennifer Gledhill why we have become desensitised to homeless people and how we can remedy the situation.
tinyurl.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Important article on responses to homelessness, 'Our brains dehumanise homeless people'. Objectification, bystander effect, the attributions we make, political discourse. We have a shared responsibility to cultivate empathy, care, understanding, connection.
tinyurl.com/mrxwrhs4
tinyurl.com/mrxwrhs4
Great to see the fantastic team at @spectrumgaming.bsky.social join this place! 👋🏻🦋
December 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Great to see the fantastic team at @spectrumgaming.bsky.social join this place! 👋🏻🦋
Warwickshire EPS are hiring, come and join us!
We're leading on a variety of exciting, innovative work. We have maingrade EP roles: tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89 and Specialist Senior EP roles (Early Years, and Preparation for Adulthood): tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89
Want to know more? Give us a call. #edpsychs
We're leading on a variety of exciting, innovative work. We have maingrade EP roles: tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89 and Specialist Senior EP roles (Early Years, and Preparation for Adulthood): tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89
Want to know more? Give us a call. #edpsychs
December 5, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Warwickshire EPS are hiring, come and join us!
We're leading on a variety of exciting, innovative work. We have maingrade EP roles: tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89 and Specialist Senior EP roles (Early Years, and Preparation for Adulthood): tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89
Want to know more? Give us a call. #edpsychs
We're leading on a variety of exciting, innovative work. We have maingrade EP roles: tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89 and Specialist Senior EP roles (Early Years, and Preparation for Adulthood): tinyurl.com/hm4s5p89
Want to know more? Give us a call. #edpsychs
Reposted by Dr Dan Lake
Just to let you know I have set up an educational psychology feed which you can find by going into the feed menu (right side), scrolling down until you reach discover and then searching for educational psychology. You can post to this feed by using the following hashtags #BlueSkyEPS or #edpsychs.
November 25, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Just to let you know I have set up an educational psychology feed which you can find by going into the feed menu (right side), scrolling down until you reach discover and then searching for educational psychology. You can post to this feed by using the following hashtags #BlueSkyEPS or #edpsychs.
November 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Reflecting on testimony injustice in service discussions on epistemology this week. As EPs working in consultation with CYP/families/schools, do we give all parties equal time & space to tell their perspective? How do we support those with less of a voice? #edpsychs
November 14, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Reflecting on testimony injustice in service discussions on epistemology this week. As EPs working in consultation with CYP/families/schools, do we give all parties equal time & space to tell their perspective? How do we support those with less of a voice? #edpsychs
Delighted to discover that @autisticrealms.bsky.social is over here (and had made the move before me... 🙈) 👋🏻
Great to see the number of familiar faces/posters/organisations moving across from the other place...
Great to see the number of familiar faces/posters/organisations moving across from the other place...
November 12, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Delighted to discover that @autisticrealms.bsky.social is over here (and had made the move before me... 🙈) 👋🏻
Great to see the number of familiar faces/posters/organisations moving across from the other place...
Great to see the number of familiar faces/posters/organisations moving across from the other place...
The SEN Policy Research Forum's seminar on 'The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently'. 👏🏻
We can't thread on here yet, so here's my thoughts from that other place: 👇🏻
tinyurl.com/ycyayed6
Original paper too: tinyurl.com/epp7tfhb
We can't thread on here yet, so here's my thoughts from that other place: 👇🏻
tinyurl.com/ycyayed6
Original paper too: tinyurl.com/epp7tfhb
x.com
x.com
November 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM
The SEN Policy Research Forum's seminar on 'The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently'. 👏🏻
We can't thread on here yet, so here's my thoughts from that other place: 👇🏻
tinyurl.com/ycyayed6
Original paper too: tinyurl.com/epp7tfhb
We can't thread on here yet, so here's my thoughts from that other place: 👇🏻
tinyurl.com/ycyayed6
Original paper too: tinyurl.com/epp7tfhb
This article from @bpsofficial.bsky.social ‘Every child deserves access to a high-quality education’ tinyurl.com/bda3v46t 👏🏻
This requires reform of the whole education system, not just SEND systems alone. Read the open letter & share with your MP! tinyurl.com/8kz8autt
This requires reform of the whole education system, not just SEND systems alone. Read the open letter & share with your MP! tinyurl.com/8kz8autt
‘Every child deserves access to a high-quality education’ | BPS
Ella Rhodes reports on a British Psychological Society campaign.
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2024 at 3:21 PM
This article from @bpsofficial.bsky.social ‘Every child deserves access to a high-quality education’ tinyurl.com/bda3v46t 👏🏻
This requires reform of the whole education system, not just SEND systems alone. Read the open letter & share with your MP! tinyurl.com/8kz8autt
This requires reform of the whole education system, not just SEND systems alone. Read the open letter & share with your MP! tinyurl.com/8kz8autt
Reposted by Dr Dan Lake
WEBINAR | Reed EP’s First Webinar of the Year a Huge Success! 💻
130 EPs joined to explore ‘Regulate, Relate, Reason and Repair’ in trauma-informed practice.
Missed it? Watch the recording on Reed.com.
Next webinar: Nov 5, 15:30 GMT on Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance, message us to join!
130 EPs joined to explore ‘Regulate, Relate, Reason and Repair’ in trauma-informed practice.
Missed it? Watch the recording on Reed.com.
Next webinar: Nov 5, 15:30 GMT on Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance, message us to join!
October 28, 2024 at 10:10 AM
WEBINAR | Reed EP’s First Webinar of the Year a Huge Success! 💻
130 EPs joined to explore ‘Regulate, Relate, Reason and Repair’ in trauma-informed practice.
Missed it? Watch the recording on Reed.com.
Next webinar: Nov 5, 15:30 GMT on Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance, message us to join!
130 EPs joined to explore ‘Regulate, Relate, Reason and Repair’ in trauma-informed practice.
Missed it? Watch the recording on Reed.com.
Next webinar: Nov 5, 15:30 GMT on Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance, message us to join!