This is no way to bring schools and families together and least of all to help children. Please sign up chng.it/6HvtYWsGrh

Are schools slow in offering flexi-school options for SEND children? @fftedudatalab.bsky.social As always @fftedudatalab.bsky.social data raises some interesting questions

Home education is up 20% from 92k to 111k in the last 12 months according to govt data published today. More children leaving education. More exclusions. More severely absent children. We need to rethink education. explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

"We know that shame is a powerful driver for violence" Prof Gwen Adshead - on the Reith Lectures, Four Questions about Violence. Something for our education system to ponder. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“High quality first teaching and additional interventions are defined through our annual dialogue across the school contributing to our provision management approach.” A great example of how school SEND reports are harder to read than Stephen Hawking. Can anyone better that? please post!

Well this would be quite funny if the consequences were less serious to the lives of children and their families schoolsweek.co.uk/school-send-...

Earlier this week we heard in a govt report how SEND delays put children at risk of severe violence. Today we learn SEND children are at risk of trafficking & modern slavery. And delays in SEND help play a critical part putting their lives at risk. tinyurl.com/2rcsdbef

If you want to know how broken the SEND system is, read on: complaints about dominate the local govt ombudsman intray. 90% are upheld yet don’t include complaints from academies (80% of secondaries, 50% of primaries). tinyurl.com/yc73ejtp 🧵1/7

I've been saying this for years: teachers are unprepared to meet SEND needs. Only 1 in 10 primary teachers say they are well prepared to meet the SEMH needs of pupils. Support teachers. Train them. Help pupils. @teachertapp.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social tinyurl.com/39wjyfz9

The evidence of toxicity in our ed system mounts. This report by the excellent @edsupportuk.bsky.social talks about stress throughout the teaching profession, as well as worsening behaviour from parents and children. tinyurl.com/yhxac22t 🧵1/4

In case anyone still doubts it, we're moving closer and closer towards a two-tier education system and it appears to be starting younger. Great for those who fit in, but for increasing numbers, if you don't, you're out. tinyurl.com/2pm2vb39

disturbing, when you consider that only around half of EHCPs are completed within the 20 weeks legally required time. tinyurl.com/4638shdm

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Just a shameful reminder that as child poverty hits record levels that schools can only be truly inclusive if we get the economics of equality right. All this while private enterprise skims its millions of social care by profiteering from the worst off. tinyurl.com/bdfvxv5k

No good clamping down on home education when @CfYoungLives estimates 75% of families home educate because children don’t get the support they need, often for SEND or mental health. tinyurl.com/bdcur7h9 (not saying HE can't be a +ve choice - just that many don't choose it)

Why does this happen? more baked-in inequality.

I know these aren't new stats (DfE June 2024), but do any stats tell a story of crushed ideals and crisis more profoundly than the fact that 11.3% of teachers leave after just one year in the job and 25.9% after three?