Apart from be a Principal of a multi site special school I used to go into main stream schools to advise on curriculum, adaptations and removing barriers to learning. The words ‘we can’t’ were quite often used by leadership. Demonstrating that they ‘can’ and ‘must’ was my job.

I delivered my first session of my new training on Understanding and Supporting Parental Challenge and SEND Parents in Liverpool this week (working title)

Rarely have I experienced a bigger energy shift in a room....

We certainly have! We’re in Derbyshire and they’re one of the worst LA’s. Whatever we’ve achieved, we’ve done ourselves and overcome too much adversity. We need accountability to the laws to support our most vulnerable, as opposed to gaslighting and ghosting! 💔

What a journey you have been on. So many parents/carers do not get the support they and their children need. I’m regularly talking to parents to support then in finding their way through the SEND system.

We certainly have! We’re in Derbyshire and they’re one of the worst LA’s. Whatever we’ve achieved, we’ve done ourselves and overcome too much adversity. We need accountability to the laws to support our most vulnerable, as opposed to gaslighting and ghosting! 💔

Huge thanks to Gráinne from STV for covering this story and helping to raise awareness about the huge challenges ASN families are facing across education in Scotland.

Proud to work with @empoweredscotland.bsky.social to continue advocating and pushing for change on a national level.

I’d suggest that this is a frighteningly regular situation tbh… with private providers being largely free to do what the fuck they like…

Talk about how to demotivate and crush people who are trying their best to get work!! 🤦‍♀️👇

DWP penalises universal credit claimant despite getting new job - Big Issue

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Shock horror, no accountability to #EHCP’s
Parents withdraw SEND children from school over safety fears - BBC News
#Failure #Safeguarding

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What really makes me lol is the bit where he says ‘they’re coping’. Hmm maybe SEND kids deserve to thrive rather than just cope. Also he’s talking a load of 💩 either way. But that’s Reform for you … attack the most vulnerable so no one looks at what they’re doing.

The comments would be laughable if they weren’t so downright dangerous!

The leader of our council. ‘Schools getting extra money’- how is he in this position?

It’s our LA Tania, they’re the worst! What a 🔔end!

Dear God. Someone send him this: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/10-false-claims-ehcps-facts/

Schools: 'What extra money? There is no more money. And the external agencies have evaporated, leaving us to support all needs without any extra staff or training.'

🙄 It's almost like he's talking out of his arse...

WTA?🤬🤯😳👇

"I personally think there are too many people in the [SEND] system," Graves said.
"I think there are reasons for that and it's to do with schools getting extra money for dealing with that.
"Most people are just about on the spectrum but they're coping."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many parents of children with ASN and disabilities fear the very services that are meant to provide healthcare, safety and support. This is Dickensian. It’s 2025 and so much abuse or worse continues to occur without much moral outrage? We are “ devalued” “ othered” and blamed. Tragic all round.

WTAF!!! They employed someone with a false identity and E trained them for a day - Are our children not safe anywhere apart from with us? 🤬😳🤦‍♀️🤯

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Omg!!!!! 👇👇👇👇🤯🤬😳

Girl, 14, died at psychiatric hospital after agency worker with false ID left her unwatched, inquest hears

Very well deserved! 🎊👏

Thank you!

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