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There's only one Attendance Contract needed in England's schools right now. Bridget Phillipson & Department for Education, you'd like to crack down on school absence. Okay. But first, you need to crack down on the things schools do which stop kids from learning. Let's take a tour... 🧵

Whilst you do that, can you stop Local Authorities from bullying and victimising #ParentCarers who #advocate for their #SEND children to get the #support and #education that the law states they’re entitled to please? 👇

The state of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 schools. Department for Education need to provide clear guidance on proof of illness. On Not Fine in School FB a parent asks "schl is demanding proof of my child's diarrhoea - how?" & most of the ~275 answers say they have either SENT PHOTOS OR SAMPLES this term. 1/

We were rooted in direct lived experience. We’d faced clinical mental illness in our kids and ourselves as a result of not fitting at school. We’d spent years trying to attend, access or remain in school, long before Covid. We were finding other Not Fine in School families were

The stories from the academies in Hackney are the stories I hear in my work. Stories of children who are terrified at school. Stories of frequent use of isolation and detention, leading to those who were doing well at primary school becoming disengaged and unhappy. Stories of

It's a sad indictment of where we are that some people are more outraged by a journalist writing about teachers screaming in children's faces than they are about teachers screaming in children's faces.

Steve B Square Peg Not Fine in School We need to ban the phrase "we can't help if she's not in". Yes you can. We ended up home educating for 2 years to gcse. School attitude and actions more traumatising.

We’ve spent time as a family on various ‘risk’ registers. We hear from hundreds of Not Fine in School who are walking the same path. Here’s the good the bad and the ugly about being on one. 🚨 they are wholly ineffective unless they are well resourced with highly skilled teams

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This school ripped up their behaviour policy. And replaced it with a relationship agreement. More of this, please. 👏

It’s Friday. The day where the most ‘persistent absentees’ miss school, according to media reports. This is often said to be because Friday is a day when many parents work from home, so they just ‘don’t bother’ getting the children to school that day. That’s not what I hear. I

Right now, there are two mental health crises within our education system. They're adversely affecting huge numbers of people in our school communities. Both should be taken very seriously. But they're seldom talked about together. It's time to talk about them together. 1/

Questions. Which parents? Where? What was the sample size? What was the demographic? Context on polling (and findings) is essential. #NotInMyName #SquarePegs Not Fine in School Ofsted Education Committee More in Common schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-report-…

We’re calling for a Dynamic Support approach to the Register drawing on the National Keyworker Service as a blueprint for positive, responsive, agile response to the children who need timely, appropriate care. We’re calling for an Attendance Code of Practice, as supported by

Attendance - Why children need support not shame. Department for Education Bridget Phillipson RewritingThe FairyTale fixed it for you! Square Peg Not Fine in School

The Truth about The Attendance Crisis: For several years now, pupil attendance has been a high profile and emotive subject, both in the education sector and in the mainstream media. 🧵 1/

Please read and share so we can change this narrative and work towards real change for children and families👇 Square Peg Not Fine in School Bridget Phillipson Department for Education IPSEA Autism and ADHD Journey @Autistic Realms National Autistic Society best of anna maxwell martin Naomi Fisher frontiersin.org/news/2025/04/2…

The Education Secretary is wrong about teaching "grit". 🧵 She's wrong in her perception that anxious children lack grit and she's wrong to think that those with mental health issues lack resilience. It's vital that we challenge this narrative. 1/

Friend’s child had been reassured by staff that the SATs were merely checking that the school was doing its job… Then they were given 30mins of SATs homework every night & kept in at lunchtime if it wasn’t completed. Nervous wreck! Hates school More Than A Score Not Fine in School