Jem

Mostly out walking these days. Purple💜

[Lewis Capaldi @LewisCapaldi]

Glastonbury it’s so incredible to be back, thank you so much for having me x

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Dear Nigel. Take your uninformed, unwanted opinions about #autism and take a long walk off the end of Clacton Pier, you complete scobberlotching fopdoodle.
Campaigners criticise Farage’s claims that UK is ‘massively overdiagnosing’ mental illness https://t.co/NL9Xzjuazu

[National Down Syndrome Policy Group @NDSPolicyGroup]

“As a doctor, psychiatrist and a sibling to someone with a learning disability I am gravely concerned about the catastrophic effect this law could have on our community.
Current practice already routinely fails them, why would this be any different?”
https://t.co/YggSHiZFcn

[Ian Birrell @ianbirrell]

Another awful story of a teenager dying while waiting for mental health treatment. So many similar stories - yet despite all the deaths, ministers and NHS bosses fail to resolve the shameful CAMS crisis, symbolic of wider failings in mental health services https://t.co/l0f8bGX4eD

[Stephen Unwin @RoseUnwin]

Please, please, please read this essential article from the remarkable @ianbirrell.

RIP Iona

https://t.co/qcxCMjGArH via @MailOnline

[Matthew Keer @CaptainK77]

Tribunal budgets are ravaged, so the DfE are now subbing MoJ ~£13m pa to keep SENDIST going

Fine if case inputs are evenly balanced. They're not. LA success rate at hearing is 1.7%, a strike rate 30x worse than the lads who gave us the Bibby Stockholm

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Here's Emma Duncan in The Times, on Special Educational Needs. What is the matter with these people? (Paywalled: https://t.co/AV14Kjq9we)

[Stephen Unwin @RoseUnwin]

Can we be careful, please, not to blame kids and their families for the SEND crisis?

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

Job coaches sent to mental health wards is clearly obscene but it’s the natural end point of an agenda that equates health with productivity. If you believe humans are only valuable when they earn a wage, the NHS is a tool - not to help patients - but to get them back to work.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

EXCLUSIVE: Keir Starmer has met literally hundreds of people who aren't Taylor Swift since becoming PM. More on this breaking scandal as we get it.

[SEND Action @SEND_Action]

Health, education and social care getting their heads together to deal with children’s needs. You mean like in an education, health and care needs assessment?

[LBC @LBC]

'The people who have written it are obviously completely ignorant.’

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of ‘stigmatising autism' in a new pamphlet, @johnharris1969 tells @ShelaghFogarty it is 'hateful'.

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

Another front opens in the culture war. Thank you to @johnharris1969 for skewering Badenoch’s dangerous nonsense so well https://t.co/WaRSxm75Ml

[Geoff Barton @RealGeoffBarton]

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[Alzheimer's Research UK @AlzResearchUK]

Did you see broadcaster @AlStewartOBE and his wife, Sally, on @BBCBreakfast just now?

The couple are highlighting how Alastair’s vascular dementia diagnosis has impacted their lives and why our search for a cure is so vital.

Watch their story and stand with us #ForACure.

[IPSEA @IPSEAcharity]

Tune in today - Woman's Hour: Is the SEND System Working?

@BBCWomansHour is broadcasting a special live show exploring how mothers are bridging the gaps in the SEND system. Our Policy Manager, Catriona Moore, will be on the guest panel.

Listen from 10am. https://t.co/xsLTxevz9H

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Presumably Robert is furious at whoever was in power for the last 14 years and didn't implement this simple solution in time to stop this day of shame.

[Steve Broach KC @SteveBroach]

I’m surprised the figure is so low. It’s a matter of fact that the SEND system is broken, as evidenced in numerous official reports

[Association of Educational Psychologists @AEPsychologists]

A drastically different approach is needed to tackle SEND crisis.

Today, with 16 organisations we deliver this very important message to @bphillipsonMP @educationgovuk to demand change.

#SENDreform #SENDrevolution @DECPOfficial