My latest Bury Times column speaks to the ongoing struggle facing children with special educational needs or disabilities and their families in our education system. #SEND #SEN

NEW RESOURCE We have worked with our community to write a guide to autism and sleep! Thank you @TheSleepCharity for reviewing this and Jo for designing the booklet :) Here it is, free to use, access and share: drive.google.com/file/d/1MpCcfe…

All of our teams have been visiting our local schools checking in with our children who left for reception in the summer - our Dumers Lane team visited Unsworth Primary last week, fabulous visit thank you! 💙🩷 #partnershipworking #EYFS

I’m grateful for this type of gaffe - which makes the lack of decency and respect obvious. Let’s not forget this piece of honesty when the General Election rolls around #voteLabour James Frith MP

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

This is so disappointing. I had real hopes that the The Labour Party would be able to see beyond the rhetoric and think flexibly about education, but this is more of the same. Attendance itself isn't the problem. Poor attendance signals that there is a problem. You can't make that

I was hoping that a labour government would be the change we needed to stop young people being failed by the schooling system. But as long as the focus is attendand and not wellbeing or meeting needs, young people will continue to be failed and it is heartbreaking. 1/2

Visited the lovely Holly Mount RC Primary today and met the gorgeous Riley! 🐾 What a joy to have such a wonderful school dog - in the brief time I was there so many children enjoyed contact with her 💙

What if teachers were subjected to the kind of rewards-based classroom-management system (including a behavior chart) that's commonly used to control students? This thread describes the eye-opening results of a brief, informal experiment: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1755986…

Thank you to Sue Hendra and Simon & Schuster Children's Books for sending us some brilliant #supertato and friends books and stickers - we loved them!

We love ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra & Paulinne - we’ve enjoyed activities including saving the vegetables that live in our home corner from the evil pea and making our own potato heroes to take home - our children have been so excited! 🥔📚✨ #WorldBookDay2024

Does the current schooling system work well for the majority? Please RT

Bury, Manchester, fails its Ofsted/CQC Area SEND Inspection. Poor experiences of children with SEND & families. Despite training, EHCP quality unacceptable, many significantly out-of-date. Poor comms, no voice of the child, poor graduated response: zurl.co/QWvK

Has anyone got a #schooldog more gorgeous than Holly Mount RC Primary’s school dog? I seriously doubt it. ❤️💙💛

One of the first councils to sign up to a controversial government bailout programme over its high needs deficits has been slammed by inspectors over its 'failing' SEND services buff.ly/3UAfiwy

"He plays with racism and division, Islamophobia and xenophobia. "I thought we'd got past that time and we don't want that kind of thing developing in our country." Mick Lynch on Nigel Farage.

How did we sink so low on helping desperate children in this country? ⁦Anne Longfield⁩: “Trying to kill yourself is not enough to get mental health support. They ask: ‘Did the child really intend to end their life or not?’ Could things be worse? theguardian.com/society/articl…

Good luck to Great Britain's U18s, who are flying out to Hungary for four days of training and competition.

Great Britain's U18s were in Slovakia this week playing in the Novaky Cup, as part of their preparations for the European Championships Over three days, GB played five matches against strong opposition, four of which will be competing in the elite division next week.