You can just say 'eau de perfum' there is absolutely no need to write GENDER NEUTRAL on the bottle like it's a toilet I'm a bit hesitant to go in but have to because I'm bursting and it's the Young Vic

As the Trust Sector grows and so do some of the CEO salaries Rebecca Leek tackles the continuing trends of imbalance in spite of expectations of comparison tables and published policies. Not hitting the mark….yet!

Well informed opinion piece here
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schoolsweek.co.uk/the-sector-mus…

This book - now with a new chapter on healthcare - is a really useful and accessible guide to autism and a great source of support for parents Jessie Hewitson Orion Publishing

Michael Jackson reaction to their kiss has me dying

I think it's telling, that 13 years on, there is a definite split about the judgment. Social care professionals tend to focus on the Mental Capacity Act aspect, relegating the HRA element to a lesser importance. 1/2

Doing some research.

Unpaid carers - where did you sleep (if you did) when in hospital?

Floor, mattress chair, side of relatives bed, or lucky and got camp bed?

Do you have photos you can send to me of your “make shift bed”

Thanks

In the face of the biggest recruitment crisis I’ve know, this is baffling. When I trained in my 40s, I felt I had a lot to bring, yet finding a route in was difficult. Seems that when more doors should be opening to encourage people into the profession, the opposite is happening

Safety Valve programme has trebled requests from Bristol schools for EHC assessment. Congratulations, Department for Education
And because of Safety Valve, these requests will mostly result in appeals to HM Courts and Tribunals Service , which can't cope. Nick Goodwin will not be thanking the DfE.

The Psychological Safety Thermometer ✍️🏼
#psychology #mentalhealth #work

'there are pay committees across the country supposedly reviewing, scrutinising and setting pay. What is happening around these tables?'

Great opinion piece from Rebecca Leek in Schools Week

The sector must engage with ratios on executive pay schoolsweek.co.uk/the-sector-mus…

Exquisite

Documentary producer and sibling Helen Waddell is looking to speak with families for a short observational documentary on living with disability as a sibling, to be presented at Sheffield Documentary Festival. Contact [email protected] if you are interested.

Concise take down of the DfE long-grass comments on special school funding, from Sean O'Sullivan

Ken Ross OBE The outcomes are only partly mediated by society. #DownsSyndrome has hugely variable impacts built into the very biology of the condition. Some of the social stuff is mediated if born into a relatively affluent articulate family . Everyone with #LearningDisability carries the

At Soapbox on Old Street.

A joy. No better person to interview me on the power of youth social action and Volunteering Matters’s work across Team London than the legendary Oscar!

#PowerOfYouth

No money, just fanciful guidance to LAs on their schools finance scheme. It will be 'notional' stuff (again): won't need a calculator, just tracing paper, you've seen it all before; pre-election padding.

Headteacher members of the Schools Forum will be meeting in Plato's Cave.

Having seen dozens of witnesses give evidence to the #postofficeinquiry , it would appear there was literally no-one to blame for the greatest miscarriage in British legal history.

Exceedingly British.

Oliver Dowden in happier days with Nadine Dorries and Dominic Raab