Jon May

Prof of Geography @QMUL; Research - Foodbanking, Welfare Reform. Also, parent of two teens - one autistic and one not.

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

If you have conversations with the parent/career of a girl struggling at school this week, please do note the detail on central systems: particularly at secondary level, really critical big picture info is often lost due to scale. #AutisticGirls #FailingToThriveByFebruary #Record

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

We'd be keen to know if there's any correlation between increased penalities & rise in UNelective Home Education or #OffRolling by #LA. Suspicion from member experience that punitive & coercive attitude to fining for #SEND kids leads to deregistering - https://t.co/tcRoKmOJc6

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

For many #SEND Children, mainstream schools could be perfect with reasonable adjustments. However, a current drive for compliance at all costs, lack of pastoral funding & disregard for reports of negative experience are driving kids to specialist provison or unelective Home Ed

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

It’s the whole system we need to be fighting - @educationgovuk - please get your priorities in order? We need to avoid a crisis of epic proportions, and yet your focus seems to be to pile on more pressure. It’s not just #SEND kids suffering, it’s an entire generation of kids.

[Katherine Ambler @kath_s_1981]

I am a MA Autism student and looking for participants for my research study. The autistic and the equine. If you are over 18 identify or have an diagnosis and are an equestrian at any level please get in touch. #autism #research #horses #equestrian

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Why are you allowing current @educationgovuk polices with high stakes exams, excessive testing, failure to accommodate #SEND destroy the #MH of an entire generation of kids. #AutisticGirls waiting for dx & denied #CAMHS support ?? Kids being broken & this is a sticking plaster

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Example of positive effects of lobbying / campaigning to address the impact of post partum #MH conditions escalating. Now, if only they can apply the same sense & joined up thinking to, say, #AutisticGirls & preventable co-occurring #MH issues developing https://t.co/gKH0lVP5kD

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

18 months waitlist for Eating Disorder service following GP referral .....

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

How does this sit with schools who advocate CYP with anxiety being forced in to school by #EWO s turning up at their house and forcing them in? #AutisticGirls @nfis_tweets

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

For Professionals - an entirely understandable blog which plays out so many ways on so many days - even the best relationships are can have points of pressure. Two simple areas to reduce this #SEND #AutisticGirls #SENCO

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Great share from @teencalmbox , great call by @NCWeek

@Telegraph, plenty of chances to rectify this - you only need to #Ask
#AutisticGirls

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Any suggestions?

[Mike Hunter @DrMikePsych]

Ask any psychiatrist - this is in our clinics every single day

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Sentiments included in this are great - relationships & trust: sadly they don’t align w/other polices schools & staff are required to conform with -attendance, cost cutting to reduce pastoral staff, + ‘behaviour’ @educationgovuk - we hope you can join the dots, esp for #SEND kids

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

A longish (15min read) but utterly inspiring piece on supporting anxious youngsters in school. When we read the list of contributors, it’s easy to see why it’s so insightful. Thank you.
Definitely one to read and share. #SEND #AutisticGirls #NotFineInSchool #SENCO
@nfis_tweets

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Brilliant thread- powerful lived experience. And in our tweets this evening we’re hoping #Teachers & #Educational workers realise what a critical time of the school year this is #AutisticGirls #FailureToThriveByFebruary

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

This is an absolutely critical time for #AutisticGirls in schools, & our current poll is showing 68% of the serious issues started at exactly this point of Yr7. Quotes being shared with permission illustrating experience of our members. #FailureToThriveByFebruary #edutwitter

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

.. illustrating a particularly difficult stage to withdraw support, particularly if an #AutisticGirl has already been diagnosed.
#FailingToThriveByFebruary

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

No doubt many children experienced heightened anxiety surround testing, but for an #AutisticGirl, this stage of Yr7 is already fraught with dangerous behaviours. #FailureToThriveByFebruary
#SEND

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Even with the best school based support, #ThereIsNoSafetyNet & #AutisticGirls access to #CAMHS is patchy at best. When parents are expressing concern, we know the kindest & most inclusive schools work in the home-school-pupil triangle. But we all need to be ultra vigilant