Matthew Keer

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: @captaink77 explains the Government's carrot and stick funding strategy as it steamrollers over dissent to its SEND reforms, without waiting for evidence or consultation https://t.co/KzbGukD1Jw

[Eduardo Reyes @edreyesjourno]

Government admits key final decisions on the SEND Tribunal have already been made, despite consultation on its SEND reforms being open till 18 May. It's at odds with ministers' statements on the consultation engaging people 'before any final decision'. https://t.co/H49vXSSogW

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: @CaptainK77 and @TaniaLT have some words of advice about answering the Government’s 39-Step White Paper #SEND consultation, including their—and your—use of AI https://t.co/pY6QM60CLd

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

@BeckyWhin Oh, that sucks so much 😢

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: We take a close look at the proposed “Specialist Provision Packages” and discover they’re more of a Trojan horse, reducing the #EHCP rights of children with SEND. https://t.co/YbvqHEAKVA

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

A large chunk of this happened to us as well. School tried hard to be inclusive - the rest of the community, not so much

[aloe hen @newsworthy_gem]

Along with the detail that is missing from the SEND pre white paper, is the voice of the non send parents, will they be canvassed to do their bit ? Their support to reduce fiscal deficit by embracing inclusion? 1/

[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

Few people have as much expertise and policy knowledge of SEND than @JohnGRoberts - the @tes SEND and Inclusion Editor.

This piece on the SEND reforms is critical reading for all and the very personal final section is incredibly important

https://t.co/9QgqGhidBT

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

In his final report as HMCI, with off-rolling at its height and thousands of SEND pupils fleeing mainstream for special schools and AP each year, this is what he had to say

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

Incredible commentary here from Wilshaw, barking out bot mots on inclusion and a ‘scandal’ that he basically presided over as HMCI

Like Caligula pointing out all the newly-dropped horseshit on the floor of the Roman Senate and wondering why

https://t.co/QJuXfihZVt

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

@DanielHugill @Georgia_Gould @BBCWomansHour @SEND_Action @SpcialNdsJungle I can’t see anything in the consultation document that says how ISPs would interact with the m/s admissions process, including how pupil access to a support base would be prioritised or sorted

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

@EmInYorkshire @DudeAdhd It will be picked up. Same as the difference between the content and framing of yesterday’s official intro speech (left)

…and the careful caveats in the research paper’s technical note (right)

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

@SENMuminSEast Looks like this £ is paying for some mainstream secondary “inclusion bases,” so your mileage might vary on how ‘specialist’ they are

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

There’ll be a lot of references to different pots of SEND funding today

Here’s a table with recent announcements- some new, some not

[Steve Dresser @dresserman]

Ahead of the SEND white paper tomorrow, there are two sides to every story.

So here's the performance of the local authorities around SEND.

These are people charged with upholding the law so these children & families can get the support they need.

https://t.co/OjB9OZdkAb

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

@KShabby16334956 @SteveBroach The core philosophy here is that every leader is a Good Chap in a Bad System, and that’s why bad things happen

Good Chaps have ID’d things that get in the way. Once these things are changed or removed, the Good Chaps will then be working in a Good System, and All Will Be Well

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

First look at the £4 billion figure that most media outlets will be leading with today

Plus some extra work for special schools that doesn’t seem to come with any earmarked funding

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST (No 3!) Before it drops, we got a look at some funding plans in the Schools White Paper: We're grateful to @CaptainK77 for giving it a once-over to see what it says so far about funding for SEND https://t.co/e76GsOSPqi

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

@SteveBroach The press release measured their contribution in days to be served, which gives it an unfortunate ‘community service for misdemeanours’ energy

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

Utterly harrowing testimony, collected by @civicwatchblog

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: Children died. The system looked away... On the day the Government seeks to slash the support rights of most neurodivergent children, accountability group Measure What Matters publishes evidence of the lethal cost of unmet need Part 1 https://t.co/vNJDEtOh1w

[thehighcliffeguy @AdamHighcliffe]

After 18 months of waiting (and reading DfE media leaks), we'll all soon find out exactly how the Govt plans to reform SEND. Or not.
Before tomorrow's white paper is published, here are 4 important messages.
...

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

Better commissioning of specialist provision would eventually drive council general fund SEND spending downwards

As would hamstringing some children's rights to an appropriate education

Tomorrow should reveal what the government has chosen

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

Even by DT standards, this is half-arsed: unpublished TPA report, no specific examples in the article to back up what the headline says

Buried in para 11: "average share of LA spending on SEND increased from 1.7% to 2.8%" over 8 years

Adult care spending the biggest driver

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Councils cut back on pothole repairs to pay spiralling special needs bill

https://t.co/P8kRKf8VPo

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

TPA haven't published their report, but the numbers indicate the figures are based on revenue spending

There are delegated revenue and capital funding streams for pothole repair: SEND admin & transport is revenue-only

Weak, weak sauce