Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom

Campaigning for the abolition of seclusion rooms from all settings & the repeal of education order 1998 Art.4 1(c)
#SEND

*tweets are my personal views* #NFFC

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

My kiddo stopped talking as a result of the trauma he suffered. He communicated by barking. For months I didn't understand why. Until a stranger asked him.

He barked because everyone likes dogs, so he thought if he acted like a dog...the staff would like him.

#RemoveTheRoom

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@danielbakersf @NickDMathison @PatSheehanMLA families are being told by schools that they must purchase branded items if they wish to wear the additional items EA has instructed them to do so to keep warm in school. Legislation is there to have EA fund these items.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@Ed_Authority given you asked students to wear additional items to keep warm, how do parents go about obtaining refunds for the additional branded items schools are insisting children wear to keep warm in their cold classrooms as a result of their rigid uniform policies?

[Rachael Jefferson, PhD, PFHEA 🇬🇧🇦🇺💃🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️ @3dancingfeet]

The weak analogies continue 🤪

Where to begin with this? 👇🙄

“Criticising a school for having a higher than average rate is like criticising a hospital for having a greater mortality rate than the cinema next door”.

[Patrick Corrigan @PatrickCorrigan]

Jeffrey Donaldson was twice UK delegate to children’s rights group

An investigation published by The Sunday Times reveals that Donaldson repeatedly sought out positions involving child protection throughout his political career at Westminster.
https://t.co/kMtjBr1aDv

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

“There is a huge disconnect between government policy…and what’s actually happening in thousands of homes up and down the country,” warns the film’s writer, who says families are being pushed towards home education by fines and prosecutions.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

If anyone wants me... I'll be binge watching "nobody wants this" and avoiding this storm 🫠🙃

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

https://t.co/z2s18Cm21F

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

We’re teenage girls fighting to ban the use of school uniform in porn. Why have you left it up to us?
No one should have to feel nervous about walking to school in clothes designed for children. It’s time for law to end the sexualisation of minors
https://t.co/50CbVTovvn

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

Why do our schools therefore not have an "ask for ani" type system then?

[Education Authority @Ed_Authority]

No one should face domestic abuse alone.

During #DAAWNI2026 we stand with all those affected by domestic abuse and support efforts to raise awareness, reduce stigma and promote access to help and support.

Together, we can make a difference.

💜 #HomeShouldMeanSafe | #EndDomesticAbuse

[AA Gribben 🌎⚖️ @TonyGribben3]

Powerful priests. Powerful politicians. Reputations protected while children suffered abuse. When religious authority & political power shield individuals from scrutiny, accountability is evaded and survivors are silenced. NI government must move forward with statutory inquiry.

[Mandy McAuley @mandy_mcauley]

“Carer’s allowance is £86.45 a week for 2026-27. Spread across 168 hours, that is roughly 51p an hour. As a sole carer, I have no downtime.” @guardian https://t.co/41GCIdpWqR

[Annie @AnnieBeale1]

MBVP had other methods to keep the suspension rates under control.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@G99____ @Rituraj062000 Can you point me in the direction of the sex discrimination legal case you are referring too?

Gender specific uniforms will still apply in schools however tousers will be a policy change.

Nail polish could also be a policy change.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

The amount of parents speaking out about school uniform policies atm as their daughters have been told to remove colourful nail polish is shocking.

Nail colour does not impact learning (fyi neither does hair colour/style).

School uniform policies must be reformed.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@Ed_Authority given you asked students to wear additional items to keep warm, how do parents go about obtaining refunds for the additional branded items schools are insisting children wear to keep warm in their cold classrooms as a result of their rigid uniform policies?

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@Education_NI @paulgivan @Ed_Authority who do parents send the bill too for the additional items of branded clothing that parents are being instructed to purchase if they want their children to have an extra layer on to keep warm whilst they are in school?

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@G99____ @Rituraj062000 Policies are supposed to be written to ensure legal responsibilities are fulfilled.

Your argument is reminiscent of the trousers debate. Girls didnt have choice to wear trousers, next year they will have. Trousers do not impact learning. Neither does nail polish.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@G99____ @Rituraj062000 They are exactly that... policies, not laws.

However statutory duties are applicable in schools, schools have a statutory duty to safeguard, educate etc

Can you point me in the direction as to where nail polish is a safeguarding risk or directly impacts learning?

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

@G99____ @Rituraj062000 Nail polish is not banned, adults are permitted to wear neutral colours

[Dr Órfhlaith Campbell @drorfh]

The first child in the ad hugs the grandparents. The second child is uncomfortable with physical touch. The ad is highlighting differences in childrens needs and the imp of consent. It is not campaigning against grandparents. Dear god in heaven!!!

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Formal complaints were made to senior clerics in the Diocese of Derry about alleged “grooming” and “inappropriate behaviour” against teenage boys almost three decades ago by a now convicted paedophile priest.

Read more: https://t.co/kizIqboV15

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE FILMED THE TRUTH INSIDE BRITISH CLASSROOMS

In 2005 science teacher Alex Dolan strapped on a hidden camera and walked into 4 schools in Leeds and London.

What she filmed was not shocking to anyone who has ever set foot in a British secondary school. Pupils fighting on desks. Kids swearing in teachers faces.

Staff shuffling the worst behaved pupils out of the building the moment Ofsted @Ofstednews turned up to inspect.

@Channel4 aired the footage as Undercover Teacher, part of the Dispatches @C4Dispatches strand.

Leeds City Council went to the High Court to try to block it. A judge refused the injunction and ruled the programme served the public interest.

Watching a school fake its way through an inspection turns out to be exactly the kind of thing the public has an interest in.

So naturally the system did what it does best. It went after the person who filmed the problem instead of the problem itself.

The General Teaching Council spent 4 years building a case against Dolan. In March 2009 it found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct for breaching the trust of the pupils she filmed.

Not the staff accused of hiding disruptive kids from inspectors. Not the school that burned through 26 supply teachers in a single year. Her.

She was suspended from teaching for 12 months.

Channel 4's own deputy head of news at the time said publicly it was wrong to punish a whistleblower for this kind of work and that the messenger should not be shot.

Press Gazette @pressgazette called the ruling a sad day for journalism. That was generous.

Dolan left teaching and became a weather presenter for BBC Look East, which is either the most British redemption arc going or proof that forecasting rain is safer than forecasting institutional failure.

No school she filmed faced a tribunal. No member of staff accused of gaming an Ofsted inspection faced a tribunal. The teacher who exposed it did.

SOURCES
@pressgazette
@tes
@C4Dispatches

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

According to every parent I've spoken to so far in regards this topic... yes, their children's school has communicated to state that children wearing unbranded items to keep warm will be sanctioned as per the school's uniform policy.

[Shaunagh #RemoveTheRoom @RemoveTheRoom]

Will kids be put into detention/isolation for wearing additional items of clothing in school to keep warm? They were instructed by the EA to do so. But will they face reprecussions as a result of rigid uniform policies set by individual schools if they attempt to keep warm?