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[Iona @Redpeffer]

This is the best thread ever ❤️

[Stephen Unwin @RoseUnwin]

So terrible being the dad of a learning disabled young man.

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

1.4 million under 18s were referred to NHS mental health services in 2022. That’s a 76% increase from 2019 - the highest number on record. And the second year in a row where referrals exceeded one million. Young people are being failed. https://t.co/3w8hM1ozcY

[Iona @Redpeffer]

@IPSEAcharity Just this. Ignoring the law and forcing us to go through lengthy appeals. And disregarding parental views.

[IPSEA @IPSEAcharity]

Non-compliance with the law by many LAs lies at the heart of the SEND crisis. If this is not addressed, nothing is likely to improve.

What’s the biggest challenge you have faced in navigating the SEND system? Tell us in the comments or R/T.

https://t.co/2UYcw0QcNM

#IPSEAat40

[Iona @Redpeffer]

@Elisabray I have 2 children, neither are able to access mainstream. Both have been consistently let down. Our family barely functions, we survive. My mental health is destroyed. I have so little energy to fight but what else do we have….

[Elisa Bray @Elisabray]

Why are record numbers of children in home education? Because parents of children with anxiety or SEN feel they have no other choice. Let’s take a look at the school system itself and support our children’s education and their mental health post-Covid

https://t.co/Tw8goC6pia

[Elisa Bray @Elisabray]

This is the most important piece I’ve ever written. Why are so many children missing school? Let’s stop punishing parents and take a look at the system itself and support our children’s mental health and SEN
@teamsquarepeg @NotFineinSchool #EOTASMATTERS

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

To understand trauma-informed care, is to understand a survivors grief over things that changed them and how they see the world, in ways that were out of their control.

[Iona @Redpeffer]

The whole thread-perfectly put. Same goes for traumatised adults too.

[Missing The Mark @_MissingTheMark]

No one can feel regulated when they don’t feel actually feel safe.

No one can point to what colour they are feeling when they are terrified to get it right or wrong, they will just pretend and point to what they think will draw the least attention. 1/

[Iona @Redpeffer]

@_LisaCherry Diagnosed this week, spent over 50 years trying to figure out what was ‘wrong’ because that’s how it’s always felt. Also autistic. Late diagnosis there too. New way of being from now on. Knowledge is power. Hopefully……

[Peter Kay (🦋@theonlypeterkay.bsky.social) @theonlypeterkay]

Our once world beating NHS, deliberately underfunded so that it has fallen behind other countries: This vile, cynical legacy of 13 years of Conservative misrule. The attrition of the NHS must be reversed. Tories won’t - they have backers and mates who seek profit from suffering.

[Missing The Mark @_MissingTheMark]

While some continue to expect us to fit societal norms and expectations I know for my family we have healed and thrived through politely ripping up the rule book and doing it our way.

“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it” James Baldwin ❤️

[Iolo Williams @IoloWilliams2]

This should have been aired on BBC, not put on i-player. Well done @shootsfilm

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

I hate when people honor others who were in undeniable pain and talk about how brave it was that no one ever knew. They didn’t know because the person didn’t think it was safe to speak their truth. Suffering in silence isn’t brave, it’s a gateway to a deeper hell.

[Iona @Redpeffer]

Updated Attendance Guidance encourages prosecution and fines of families facing barriers to attendance. Undiagnosed children with SEND are particularly at risk. Please don't criminalise our families. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/W13GqXGE3V via @UKChange

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Broadcast union @bectu which represents many BBC staff says: “This is a deeply concerning decision from the BBC…taken with the ongoing controversy over the appointment of the BBC chairman…it risks given the impression of double standards on these issues.”

[Channel 5 News @5_News]

Gary Lineker has told @mrdanwalker it's not his decision to step back from presenting Match of the Day following his criticism of the government's asylum policy on social media, saying "they [the BBC] have told me I have to step back".

#5News

[Sky News @SkyNews]

'They've caved in to a noisy, right-wing cabal.'

@Anna_Soubry says the BBC has made a "seriously concerning" decision regarding Gary Lineker, adding that as a freelance sports presenter he is entitled to express his views.

Latest: https://t.co/5HnYbXr1O1

📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

[Peter Kay (🦋@theonlypeterkay.bsky.social) @theonlypeterkay]

@campbellclaret’s righteous indignation: “This isn't about Gary Lineker this is about whether we, as a country, understand the seeds that are being sown by this authoritarian right wing government that now has got a grip of the conservative party and a grip of this government. 1/

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨 ⚽️ | Gary Lineker has been temporarily removed from presenting Match of the Day.

And now co-presenters Alan Shearer and Ian Wright have said they will not work the episode, in solidarity.

Respect.