We're always yold that days off school limit life chances. So why does a yr6 bright child who helps care for her mum get excluded? Because she dies her hair. Shameful.metro.co.uk/2024/09/05/gir…

'The key reasons for beginning to home educate are SEND (more prevalent in upper primary) and mental health (more prevalent in upper secondary)' 🔬 Katie Finlayson buff.ly/3B5sbbS

We are running a project called Barriers to Education - where we are rewriting the guidance for supporting young people when they struggle to attend school. And I am running a half marathon to help make it possible: justgiving.com/page/andysg-ha…

SEND: We've been inundated with messages from mums sharing their experiences. @bbcnuala & Carolyn Atkinson are joined live by mums who say the system is failing their children. Some have no school place for their child and others have had to give up work to support them ⬇️

We ran a survey via Not Fine in School on Unauthorised absence. Summary & full report 👇. With Children's Commissioner for England finally waking up to this issue, we call on her to talk to us & Square Peg. Let's put family voice back into the conversation – 62,000 in group. notfineinschool.co.uk/home/f/unautho…

Dame Rachel said it was a "scandal" that children missing from education were "not on anybody's radar" 41% of parents with SEN children say they have had to leave their jobs to spend time pursuing their children’s legal rights to support =CHILDREN ARE ON THEIR PARENT'S RADAR!

It was powerful to hear directly from parents, carers, and young people, including 17-year-old Katie, on BBC Woman's Hour today. Their stories highlight the urgent need to tackle the SEND crisis. We hear countless frustrating and heartbreaking experiences just like these every day

Another day, another parent receives a very serious letter in the post. Their child's school attendance level has triggered legal action under the Single Justice Procedure. The parent has to respond by telling the magistrate if they are guilty or not guilty. 1/

And as the BBC Woman's Hour survey of Send mothers found too many of them are also having to give up work and careers to care for children with no school place or unable to attend school . Square Peg Bridget Phillipson Not Fine in School Autistic Girls Network Dr Carrie Grant MBE (hc) 💙

I find this worrying, esp for children transitioning to secondary schools. Some children are absent minded. They forget things. They are punished & feel hurt & rejected. Their first lesson is to learn not to trust. Their second is to be wary about relationships. Not a good start.

In reality this is hard to argue with

The response to this thread has been overwhelming. It should make us all stop and think. On the surface, it's an issue of how schools code pupil absences. But it's much deeper than that. It's about how a society perceives & responds to mental health. We can do so much better.

Do you know anyone who would like to help Amelia? Amelia Paton

Do you know anyone who would like to help Amelia with her research? Amelia Paton

Thank you to every parent who came forward to share their experiences about fines and prosecutions. The story has been published by Sky News today: Article news.sky.com/story/parents-… Video youtu.be/hdDB5_tD3OA?si… Bridget Phillipson Catherine McKinnell Stephen Morgan MP 👇🏻

Delighted to share an updated version of this paper, alongside a plea to professionals to call parent blame out when they see it. "I felt shamed and blamed": An exploration of the parental lived experience of School Distress. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Tim Linehan Not Fine in School

Teachers who do this Just stop This is not who you entered the profession to be

Some schools have outdated, meaningless rules. More as we get it.

35,000 views and nobody has given an explanation as to what the problem is with the haircut Lots of “that’s what the policy says” comments but no explanation of why the policy says that If we can’t even explain the rule, why is it there and what purpose does it serve?