CountingChildren?

Get your facts straight

Orgs and academics on the facts and narrative around oversight of children, especially around attendance and children 'not in school'

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

Let's take a look at the dangerous power grab that is Part 3 Clause 48 of the #SchoolsBill https://t.co/RJTtmBpCfE And be very clear from the start: this is NOT a register of only children who are not on school rolls today. It is far bigger. #SafetyNotSurveillance (Thread 1/25)

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

@SobukiRa @nicholasgfearn @ICARSBanRandS ❤

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

@BBCNewsnight @KirstyWark There needs to be a discussion about this based on accurate facts.

Children failed by schools are not missing. Schools are under a legal obligation to inform the council of every child deregistered at a non standard transition point.

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

@MichaelRosenYes @Battlebridge_ @stanmere Thanks Michael. It's just to share this with your followers

It isn't only Newsnight, this misinformation has been repeated across many platforms

The narrative is pervasive, many reasonable people will believe that children who are failed by school are 'missing'.

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

@MichaelRosenYes @Battlebridge_ @stanmere Schools have details of all children on roll

Local authorities have details of every child deregistered from school at a non-standard transition point

Schools are under a legal obligation to inform them of this and there is no suggestion that schools are failing in this duty

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

When I advocate for children’s voices to be heard, I am told of the dire consequences that will follow if we allow children to make meaningful choices. ‘They’ll never do anything hard’ I’m told. Or ‘We’d have no doctors or engineers if we did that’. Here’s why that’s wrong.1/

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

When you meet children and teenagers who have not been schooled, you see something quite different. They are still interested and curious. They haven’t learnt to choose the easy option. They want to learn - and so they do. They set themselves challenges. 7/

[Educating English @english_engli1]

A short thread on @OakNational, their founding documents and their claims to independence from government interference... @JonColes01 @Jonathan_Dando @warwickmansell @RealGeoffBarton @johnrobeds

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

Damning words by @ICOnews with regards to @educationgovuk’s flagrant profiteering from pupils’ data. Our children & young people deserve & are entitled to better than this. @defenddigitalme @CountChildrenUK @SuitableEd @NotFineinSchool @NSPCC @ChildrensComm @coyl2022

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

The Real World on Think Again https://t.co/ApQMyY0E3O

[NoToSchoolsBill @NoToSchoolsBill]

The DfE in a data breach which the ICO commissioner said was so serious it merited a £10million fine

This is the latest in a string of offences. Yet they want us to trust them in the Schools Bill, which will write govt a blank cheque for children's data https://t.co/xVwh3Zye11

[NoToSchoolsBill @NoToSchoolsBill]

The Schools Bill includes measures which enable extraordinary levels or State surveillance over children and which pose a grave threat to the most vulnerable and marginalised in our society.
#SupportNotSanctions
#SafetyNotSurveillance
#NoToSchoolsBill

https://t.co/H54vLbnSxo

[NoToSchoolsBill @NoToSchoolsBill]

Open letter: "It is vital that the Schools Bill be withdrawn and that it not be replaced with another containing the same powers."

https://t.co/5xKkiYC663

@hiddendepths @naomicfisher @NExclusions @YorkTravellers @UKVCF @Andy_Bilson @NotFineinSchool @teamsquarepeg @PFAN_UK

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

@JoeReddington There isn't a problem with children vanishing from school rolls, nor is there any lack of data on this. Local authorities are informed of every single child who leaves school at a non-standard point.

https://t.co/rFIl1iNJZa

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

Today: If any child is extraordinarily taken off the school roll, the Local Authorities track this deregistration under fifteen different categories as set out in the Pupil Registration (England) Regulations 2006 https://t.co/kOgF9N9JjG (image p24-25 Bristol Council CME Guidance)

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

@JoeReddington @BylineTimes Hi Joe, Clause 48 became Clause 49 between Committee and Report Stages of the draft Bill.

[CountingChildren? @CountChildrenUK]

Data rights campaigner @TheABB breaking down the fictitious claims about "ghost children".

It's a myth used to justify some exceedingly worrying policy and legislation, including the live attendance tracking and the so-called 'children not in schools' registers.

[Jen Persson🌻 @TheABB]

Opinion after the @csjthinktank event, “The Children of Lockdown: Where are they now?” #CPC22 https://t.co/gojkkriesR Busting the “ghost children” myth, why the data is wrong, and why it matters not to conflate causes of school pupil absence for good policymaking.

[Suitable Education @SuitableEd]

The government is further rolling out the live attendance tracker, part of their extraordinary surveillance measures of children.

@defenddigitalme is mounting an important legal challenge but need support.

Please donate to protect children

https://t.co/PZCZMytYgo

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

An important paper, particularly when considering calls for action around attendance management & safeguarding duty. The evidence speaks volumes @educationgovuk @aewm1917 @reviewCSC @ChildrensComm @ncbtweets @LordJimKnight @LordPhilofBrum @natalieben @LordLucasCD @CountChildrenUK

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

The right to family life free from interference from Government is sorely lacking. We are measured, assessed, scrutinised, followed, monitored, coerced, threatened, bullied, blamed, shamed from the moment we are expectant parents, give our children to pre-school onwards.

[Rachael Venables @rachaelvenables]

Remember the outrage caused by the strip search of Child Q in Hackney?

Today I can reveal that five children are being strip searched every week by the Met, without being arrested for anything first.

More than half of the children were black. @LBC https://t.co/dnmB7IupHZ

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

This consultation is neither accessible nor ‘meant’ for families/parent carers and yet impacts & affects them. Just not conducive to good policy development or co-produced public services. @educationgovuk #nothingaboutuswithoutus