SenSchoolsGuide

Online guide to help parents find the best school for children with special needs. Created by SEN parents for SEN parents

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

I'm really confused. Wasn't the VAT money going to help fix state schools and the broken SEND provision? Why is it going elsewhere?

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

@bphillipsonMP @theipaper We agree with you on this one point - all children deserve the best start in life. This is why your attempts to punish SEND children failed by the state sector for trying to access their "best start" outside the sector, is truly shocking and shameful. Heartless

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

@joenutt_author How you put admiring Putin and defending private schools on par in the same sentence is disturbing

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

@anaboultertv @TiceRichard @bphillipsonMP She is here to destroy private schools and any child who gets hurt in the process, special needs or not, is collateral damage. It's hard to believe she is a mother

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

@samcarlisle They are also underestimating this fact - no one is more passionate and fights harder than a parent fighting for their SEND child

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

@samcarlisle Sadly, this day is not today. And sadly, we are dealing with the most heartless education secretary ever...

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

“What’s going to happen to our primary school children in 20 years’ time when we have a generation who have not had their educational needs supported and we expect them to cope and function in society? We are always kicking the problem down the road.” https://t.co/kfy0sko8FF

[Chester @CreEnglish]

“What the government doesn’t want to recognise is that for disabled people like me, independent schooling didn’t just unlock equal opportunity; it was, quite literally, my salvation" #EducationNotTax

https://t.co/ofTxTqCWxo

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

@Sureena4WNE Additional learning support sessions for children with SEND are now also subject to vat . Do you maintain that it's fair? Is it possible that children in the private sector may be equally disadvantaged / lost / neglected? Or do they not matter at all?

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

The government is planning to fix the SEND crisis by making mainstream schools more inclusive for children with SEND.

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Teachers humiliated pupils at top academy that refused reasonable adjustments for children with SEND saying “no exceptions”. One mother said: “Teachers yelled and even swore at students. They took pleasure in having power. It was psychological abuse.”
https://t.co/U1TkeSEsqF

[Georgina Durrant @senresourceblog]

Children’s development ‘put back by years’ due to failure of SEND system

“The result is that young people, & their families, don’t get the help they need & lose vital weeks, months & years of education and development as a result...”

https://t.co/N5YSMhlaSM

[SEND National Crisis @SendCrisis]

Parents may wish to remind schools!!

[Antonia Rodriguez @Antonia52704814]

https://t.co/7p7Nycppfi

Really excellent questions on EHCPs. Hopefully @bphillipsonMP and @educationgovuk
can publish clarification. A lot of parents struggling to work through the treacle pond without joy on this.

@SenSchoolsGuide @EducationNotTax

[IPSEA @IPSEAcharity]

Our Legal Team’s Maria Bloom is quoted in this piece which highlights the staggering figure that 98% of cases decided by the SEND Tribunal go against LAs - showing just how often families are forced to fight for the support their children need and are legally entitled to.

[Extraordinary Links @Extraor57879073]

All of this, the system is broken. Placing disabled children into mainstream schools will not help an overstretched system either, but this seems to be the new mission. SEND children have a right to an education that helps, not traumatises them and their families.

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

Sadly, I fear this is one of many similar stories to appear over the next few months. Our heart goes out to the little boy. BBC News - Derby: Parents upset as autistic son faces school move - BBC News
https://t.co/qsxOhUhH8i

[SenSchoolsGuide @SenSchoolsGuide]

Insiders say local authorities are already receiving applications for Education Health and Care plans from parents who can no longer afford private school fees https://t.co/ZqKZGUdMyd

[Claire Young MP 🔶 @ClaireforTAY]

Since being elected, I've been inundated with parents who are struggling to get their child the SEND support they need. No parent should be prosecuted for the failings in the school system, particularly where it comes to absence linked to SEN.

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

The huge rise in applications for EHCPs (Education, Health & Care plans) will continue until we find the courage for a root & branch rethink about our whole approach to children’s education - one driven by what we now understand about neuroscience & neurodiversity! @BBCr4today