‘Nearly a third of parents (30%) have had to use the legal system to get their children the right provision’ ITV News research reveals scale of SEND crisis across country | ITV News - itv.com/news/anglia/20…

NEW POST: Today Tania Tirraoro FRSA - Special Needs Jungle & Sharon Louise Smith deconstruct a new local government-backed report claiming #SEND is an existential threat to LAs’ financial sustainability—junking the #SENDTribunal is part of the answer. Find out more, and what we make of it specialneedsjungle.com/send-is-an-exi…

Make Sure To Tune In 📺 Keep an eye out on ITV London from 6pm tonight where our chair Jennifer Peters addresses the challenges faced by parents of children with additional needs, especially in the education sector 🎬 #SkylarksCharity #ITVNews #SEND #SENDSupport

Your handy SEND jargon translator: "Demand" > Need "Increase in EHCPs" > Increase in diagnoses "Demanding parents" > Desperate children "Parents take councils to court" > Councils break law "SEND threatens councils" > Underfunding threatens councils "Reduce duty" > Abandon kids

I’d like to find 2 more participants in my MSc study. If you have a disabled child/young person who’s had a dental/medical procedure under sedation/general anaesthetic and have 30-45 minutes to chat (with or without your child) I’d be very grateful! 🦷 🏥 ⬇️ details below

Thanks Sally Phillips for flagging our research on Good Morning Britain & making the message clear: #ParentCarers don't contemplate suicide because they have disabled kids. They contemplate suicide because they've been by broken by a system that's failing their kids. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/more…

We are recruiting voluntary positions to join our Board of Trustees. If you are interested, or know someone who might be, do take a look at our vacancy and contact us for a chat. This is one of the most crucial and impactful times to lend your skills to the #SEND sector.

Last tweet on #SEND Report. Conspicuous by their absence on the news yesterday were disabled people whose views on how they are educated and where should have been right at the centre of any discussion. ITV News BBC News (UK) BBCOUCH ALLFIE Byline Times The Guardian BBC Radio 4 Today

New comedy series We Might Regret This may be one of the best things about disability I've ever watched It's genuinely funny, fully authentic, and shows how much beautiful intimacy - sexual and otherwise - suffuses disabled life My review for The Guardian theguardian.com/culture/articl…

Very proud to be a tiny part of this tremendous show. People always ask – can she have sex?’: the stars of TV’s racy, hilarious new disability comedy | Culture | The Guardian. theguardian.com/culture/articl…

Four places left for Down Syndrome tennis tournament this weekend! All levels welcome! Down Syndrome Tennis Open to take place in Osterley this weekend hounslowherald.com/down-syndrome-…

Launch for #WeMightRegretThis coming to BBC Two end August. Properly proud to have been involved - not just saying that because at this point I’m I’m supposed to. Congratulations Kyla Harris #leegetty Ash Atalla #inezgordon #nickcollet Jess Bray #sarahkendall and all the cast.

Systems-Generated Trauma Research: Many say most traumatising experience is treatment by public bodies they'd asked for support @Cerebra Law at Leeds researching how parents of disabled children are traumatised by social & education systems they engage with bit.ly/4cbb31o

Important judgement. We hope to hear more on SNJ from Ollie Persey on the implications of this for disabled children and young people and their families. gardencourtchambers.co.uk/news/high-cour…

It's the last episode of this series of .... 📖 Weirdos Book Club 📖 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders ..with Sally Phillips! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lin… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7Iup7N… Sally Phillips Cariad Lloyd Sara Pascoe Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club

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Down Syndrome Tennis Open enjoys successful launch hounslowherald.com/down-syndrome-…

This isnt going where you think it is. 🧵 One of the most annoying things about children is that they want you to stop what you're doing every 0.7 seconds to watch them attempt what I think is supposed to be a cartwheel, or show you how good they are at standing on one leg.

Navigating #SEND issues for your beloveds? There are some mighty parents out there making maps. Do check out everything Special Needs Jungle and SEND Action but here’s a podcast too… Georgina Durrant podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sen…

What he said.