A drastically different approach is needed to tackle SEND crisis. Today, with 16 organisations we deliver this very important message to Bridget Phillipson Department for Education to demand change. #SENDreform #SENDrevolution BPS DECP

Tune in today - Woman's Hour: Is the SEND System Working? BBC Woman's Hour is broadcasting a special live show exploring how mothers are bridging the gaps in the SEND system. Our Policy Manager, Catriona Moore, will be on the guest panel. Listen from 10am. bbc.in/3ZhUyhb

Presumably Robert is furious at whoever was in power for the last 14 years and didn't implement this simple solution in time to stop this day of shame.

I’m surprised the figure is so low. It’s a matter of fact that the SEND system is broken, as evidenced in numerous official reports

Did you see broadcaster Alastair Stewart and his wife, Sally, on BBC Breakfast just now? The couple are highlighting how Alastair’s vascular dementia diagnosis has impacted their lives and why our search for a cure is so vital. Watch their story and stand with us #ForACure.

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'The people who have written it are obviously completely ignorant.’ Kemi Badenoch has been accused of ‘stigmatising autism' in a new pamphlet, John Harris tells Shelagh Fogarty it is 'hateful'.

Another front opens in the culture war. Thank you to John Harris for skewering Badenoch’s dangerous nonsense so well theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Health, education and social care getting their heads together to deal with children’s needs. You mean like in an education, health and care needs assessment?

EXCLUSIVE: Keir Starmer has met literally hundreds of people who aren't Taylor Swift since becoming PM. More on this breaking scandal as we get it.

Job coaches sent to mental health wards is clearly obscene but it’s the natural end point of an agenda that equates health with productivity. If you believe humans are only valuable when they earn a wage, the NHS is a tool - not to help patients - but to get them back to work.

Can we be careful, please, not to blame kids and their families for the SEND crisis?

Here's Emma Duncan in The Times, on Special Educational Needs. What is the matter with these people? (Paywalled: thetimes.com/comment/column…)

Tribunal budgets are ravaged, so the DfE are now subbing MoJ ~£13m pa to keep SENDIST going Fine if case inputs are evenly balanced. They're not. LA success rate at hearing is 1.7%, a strike rate 30x worse than the lads who gave us the Bibby Stockholm

Another awful story of a teenager dying while waiting for mental health treatment. So many similar stories - yet despite all the deaths, ministers and NHS bosses fail to resolve the shameful CAMS crisis, symbolic of wider failings in mental health services theguardian.com/society/2025/f…

Please, please, please read this essential article from the remarkable Ian Birrell. RIP Iona dailymail.co.uk/femail/article… via Mail Online

“As a doctor, psychiatrist and a sibling to someone with a learning disability I am gravely concerned about the catastrophic effect this law could have on our community. Current practice already routinely fails them, why would this be any different?” ndspg.org/wp-content/upl…

Dear Nigel. Take your uninformed, unwanted opinions about #autism and take a long walk off the end of Clacton Pier, you complete scobberlotching fopdoodle. Campaigners criticise Farage’s claims that UK is ‘massively overdiagnosing’ mental illness theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Morning everyone, I'm part of the organising team for a new campaign launched by over 100 celebs writing to starmer to demand he scraps the cuts. Today we're asking everyone to share and use the hashtag #TakingThePIP takingthepip.co.uk @takingthepip1

Glastonbury it’s so incredible to be back, thank you so much for having me x