An Abolitionist Grassroots Coalition Movement in Education focused on racial justice, abolishing exclusions & free quality inclusive edu 4 all #NoMoreExclusions
Our Abolitionist Alternatives to Exclusions Guide launch event is this week!
All welcome and food will be provided.
Get your tickets via this link, we hope to see you there: https://t.co/NOabJTHxqy
NME is launching our ‘Abolitionist Alternative to Exclusions’ guide!
Join us next week to discuss ways of building care, support and freedom into our education system.
📆 Thursday 5th June
⏰ 6-9pm
📍 Brixton
🍴Dinner is provided
Register here: https://t.co/NOabJTHxqy
Open Public Meeting Sat 4th July Save the Date 3-5pm discussions, updates + guest speakers from @NExclusions linking #housing & #schooling
https://t.co/xub0uQrOHI
"Isolation rooms came up repeatedly across our conversations. Young people were removed from
class and placed alone for the day with a pile of work and no help" New report on NEETs offers criticism of "rigid" discipline systems: https://t.co/IfRP8dPVsK
Over the coming weeks, ICARS will begin releasing selected evidence from the Department for Education’s 2019 consultation, “Restraint in mainstream settings and alternative provision.”
The consultation ran from 27 June to 17 October 2019.
This evidence is now part of the material being sent to the United Nations.
The Department asked for views on whether guidance was needed for mainstream schools, mainstream post-16 settings and alternative provision.
Years later, the consultation outcome still has not been published.
The responses matter because they show that families, advocates, professionals and organisations were already warning the Department about restraint, seclusion, isolation and other restrictive practices in schools.
Nearly seven years on, the question is simple:
What was the DfE told?
And why has the Department still not reported publicly on what was said in this consultation?
Happy Independence Day Guyana! 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966.
Guyana later became a republic on 23 February 1970.
Big up all my Guyanese friends on the timeline!
Happy Independence Day! 🇬🇾🫶🏾☀️🙏🏾
Today at the University of Cambridge, I spoke about my legal cases where Black language practices have been criminalised through hate speech law and what this reveals about power, race, and linguistic discrimination. 🖤
Recording out next week 🥳
There’s a persistent belief that being highly able somehow “cancels out” SEND,as if intelligence protects a child from autism,ADHD,dyslexia,sensory difficulties,anxiety,exec functioning problems or emotional vulnerability. In reality,high cognitive ability can mask needs for yrs.
every school should have a "fix-it lab" where students learn to repair their clothes, bikes and electronics. we should grow up knowing that not everything is disposable, that care and repair are part of living well on this planet.
Did you know over 200,000 Congolese children are deprived of an education and forced into child labour to find, wash and transport minerals? Some die in Mine collapses and lose one or both parents in the mines and/or conflict?
In conversation with journalist @akilimalichoma_ n Kinshasai who gives a troubling and heartbreaking account of how children in congo are exploited.
🎙️ Full episode out NOW on YouTube at Dr Shola Speaks https://t.co/SHzl1b5cdC
British army vet Hetticia & ex paint maker Vanderbilt have been fighting for half a decade for Windrush compensation. My 4-part series tells their harrowing story. Thank you to the Community Reporter subscribers for supporting. Subscribe for Part 1 tonight.https://t.co/iy0JuRsOML
I would like for Tom Bennett and behaviourist campaigners to speak with the parents of these children, the ones that were pushed out with their methods and have been left behind https://t.co/nhdzxuby4H
BIG NEWS! An important legal challenge has just been issued against the Government’s #SENDreform consultation. It argues it's unlawful & unfair, failing to provide sufficient information or ask key questions. We fully support Jessica & Melissa’s claim
https://t.co/dyh79YFUOo
“Academisation hasn’t delivered the financial resilience it promised. In a constrained funding system,it has introduced additional layers of management+when finances tighten,the impact is often felt most by frontline provision,especially for pupils.”https://t.co/oN0oQWIQDF
Join us in solidarity to challenge segregation and demand a truly Inclusive Education system at Save Our Children's Rights National Day of Action
When? Saturday, 9 May 2026 11:30am-1pm
Where? Parliament Square, Westminster, London
#EducateDontSegregate
https://t.co/du3U6wVZoZ
ALLFIE does not believe the current government SEND reform proposals will deliver Inclusive Education or a true sense of belonging.
Join us in attending The Save Our Children's Rights Day of Action on May 9th #EducateDontSegregate
https://t.co/2wfc4t0Nh5
3/ Public reporting shows that Yondr, a company selling locked phone pouches to schools, has lobbied for phone-free school policies while also receiving growing public-sector school contracts.
That does not automatically prove unlawful conduct or a conflict of interest in every case.
But it raises legitimate questions about procurement, lobbying, evidence standards, and who benefits when these policies are pushed.
2/ Google who is connected to cell phone pouch companies in your own country, state, or school system.
Look at advisers, lobbyists, policymakers, consultants, school networks, public contracts, and procurement decisions.
Then decide for yourself whether there are conflicts of interest in your country
🧵1/ In light of the new research on school cell phone ban effectiveness, it is time to ask how these policies came to be, who pushed them, how much money has been spent lobbying for them globally, and who profits when schools are told the answer is a locked pouch.
Because this is no longer just a debate about phones.
https://t.co/dw81PXBHrB