‘Jail-like horror’ for thousands of autistic patients thetimes.co.uk/article/f38c4c…

Latest from me: As councils crumble, a new scapegoat has been found: the parents of disabled and vulnerable children theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Mum told to 'shut severely disabled son in bedroom' when seeking help birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/… Social Care needs to go back to being called Social Services, they are clearly clueless and don’t care. Do they learn nothing from past experiences and the loss of our children?

#CAMHS Child under crisis team due to suicide attempts and self harm….the support offer…a 4 week online parenting course - during work hours of course, because sen parents don’t have bills to pay apparently. #sen

Thank you everyone who has shared, commented and complained about the conduct of the Cllrs at the Warwickshire County Council scrutiny meeting. I've been made aware that Cllr Golby has claimed that the sharing of her comments and the offensive and hurt this has caused is "harassment". She

I would make them all prove value for money - keep throwing money at ppl not achieving nothing. My poor son had hundreds of thousands handed over to private business for his EHCP with very little return for it. 500k to stop someone having a breakdown in a mainstream school was

So true for example most autustics would value OT therapy over Speech and Language Therapy yet SALT always leads. Reason? SALT is to deal with other peoples difficulty and to make us as not autistic as possible

Madeleine, 8, was rejected by every school her council approached - because she has autism. She has now joined a growing number of children whose parents are instead given money to pay for educational activities outside of school. trib.al/potebxN

On SNJ Today: A former council SEND manager tells how she was paid to go quietly after six months in her role for raising concerns about language used by senior colleagues about disabled children and their families: “He’d be cheaper in long-term care’ specialneedsjungle.com/cheaper-long-t…

Today, following the inquest of Caitlyn Scott-Lee we joined National Autistic Society PAPYRUS Tellmi Samaritans & YoungMinds to write an open letter to Government to highlight the increased risk of suicide that autistic people face and call for urgent action: bit.ly/44pqy3J

If parents are not listened to, another child, like sweet Sammy, could die. On Day 1 of his inquest, I read out my emotional 40 page witness statement. We needed 40 pages to document all the neglect, torment, abuse & refusals. 💔 #neglect #childloss #sammy4change

My beautiful son joins the roll call of children and young, vulnerable people killed by ignorance and callousness. I still can’t believe what was done. There will be many more because there is no will to protect them.

My sweet Sammy has left this world but please support "Sammy's Foundation" and join us in this journey of change and hope for others. Thankyou to everybody who has donated so far. Your help is making such a difference. 🙏❤️

NEW POST: Parents of disabled children traumatised by the public bodies that should be supporting them. “Families have to be ‘beyond reasonable’ Catriona Moore writes, because it’s all too easy to be labelled “difficult” with the ensuing consequences specialneedsjungle.com/parents-disabl…

Mum calls for change after daughter's suicide bbc.in/3WtlQhI

The moment has come! My legacy to sweet, gentle Sammy is today registered as a charity! 🎉❤️ Pls keep supporting so we can deliver more heritage craft training to youngsters with neurological divergency. So much untapped potential to show the world ❤️🙏 gofund.me/f2e62e20

Its quite demonic to blame disabled children and their parents for spiralling SEND budgets when the real problem is long term chronic lack of investment in public services for disabled kids and private profit filling that gaping hole very nicely thank you

Disabled MP’s passionate call for action over ‘scandal of locked settings’ – Disability News Service ⁦SEND Warrior Mum making a difference!⁩ ⁦Elissa Noves⁩ ⁦parent of pugs⁩ ⁦Beth 💙⁩ ⁦reann⁩ ⁦WOWcampaign⁩ ⁦DPAC⁩ disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-mps-p…

'No facilities available to prevent death' - coroner bbc.in/40qgiIj

Learning the endangered craft of cord-spinning under 1 of only 4 independent passementerie makers left in the UK, this workshop was a hit! Our Foundation preserves heritage crafts whilst giving neurodivergent young people the chance to discover alternative, valuable careers🧶