Christine Long

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Reform the SEND education in the uk - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/fvMxIQppRt via @UKChange

[SEND Reform England @education4all23]

PROTEST FOR SEND REFORM!!
LONDON JUNE 21ST
PARLIMENT SQUARE 11-3
please join us an help make change,
LAs cannot continue to break the law with regards to ehcps without consequence, our children cannot be excluded or forced into the wrong settings for lack of provisions!

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Kent: Parents call for apology over councillors’ SEND comments: These attitudes are bound to be replicated in LAs across the country — still! Its a massive part of the problem if politicians are not motivated to support disabled children. https://t.co/ZfJOh2nneS

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Says it all https://t.co/qYQgZ3hKZk

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

I despair. Why are the dads confined to brackets in this @dailytelegraph article? Why is it only mothers who are assumed to want to stay at home with their kids? #genderequity #workingparents (had to make up that hashtag 🙄)

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Hurray! So good to see #microtia and kids with hearing aids hitting the mainstream

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Please Rishi, tell local authorities that laws for disabled children MUST be followed - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/xsrgQ1GuMx via @UKChange

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

“I am so proud of you, Mummy, for giving me a lollipop” hmm, thanks Em #parenting #smashingit

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

@JohnRadoux For me everything depends on context. I’ve always been called Mum in a hospital setting where there’s an atmosphere of trust and good faith. But I can see how it could be taken as dismissive where someone has paperwork with your name all over it that they haven’t read

[Save the LDU @savetheldu]

Happy World Hearing Day! An epic week - we have stopped the restructure of the deaf unit at Laycock. This is a huge win and means our kids will continue to receive the education they deserve. Too many people to thank but we'll start with @NDCS_UK @IslingtonBC

[Southeastern @Se_Railway]

ℹ️ We've been informed that a duck has been left on a train at #HerneHill - staff are looking after it at the station at the moment and will arrange for it to be safely collected, however if it is yours then please make yourself known to station staff.

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

@SimonKnight100 @SpcialNdsJungle Ditto that!

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

@SpcialNdsJungle @CaptainK77 “No evidential basis for the indefinite increase” in EHCPs. Um, what about the fact that every single EHCP is backed up by the evidence of numerous experts?

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Me (putting to bed two over-excited-children-on-holiday): “Now I don’t want to hear another sound from this room”
7yo (brilliant legal career ahead of her) “What about yawning or coughing?” #loophole

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Excellent article.

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Parents of SEND children like me are not ‘entitled’.Good article from #SEND parent, @JimMooreJourno at @Independent. Thanks for the mentions! https://t.co/RJXGOOlSMh

[Christine Long @Clonginbarnes]

Anyone who says there are too many children with EHCPs clearly has never undergone the torture of applying for one (and then attempting to enforce it). Bravo to @CaptainK77 for a meticulous dissection of this interview.

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

On SNJ Today: Does @educationgovuk really believe what its adviser, Tony McArdle says about #EHCP "golden tickets" after all the parents they've heard from? SNJ's @CaptainK77 offers an expanded #DirectorsCut with the unvarnished truth of the SEND system https://t.co/4wjo6GLIXt

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: Why @educationgovuk Adviser, Tony McArdle is wrong, wrong, wrong in his “version” of the SEND system. Here’s @CaptainK77's expanded #DirectorsCut with the whole truth about so-called #EHCP “golden tickets” https://t.co/4wjo6GLIXt

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

No, Tony McArdle. SEND is not a game we play—The SEND system recovery is in the hands of those who crashed it. SNJ's @CaptainK77 & @TaniaLT respond to the @educationgovuk adviser's @SchoolsWeek interview & its pernicious "EHCP golden ticket" narrative https://t.co/Aayvxc1g5P

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

This is an important read. The content (& the mentality that drives it) are about as welcome as an anal fistula.

But it’s a glimpse into the thinking that’s powering the future SEND system, as it desperately tries to save itself from the people it purports to serve

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: Don’t make it harder to get #EHCPs warns @EHRC as the @educationgovuk considers doing exactly that by “raising the bar” https://t.co/d1qfQIpRNS