ASD Friendly is a support network of parents with Autistic and Aspergers children.
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Watched #UnauthorisedAbsence & am just floored. As a parent of an autistic child, I feel completely seen & that’s not something I often get to say. The exhausting struggle to be heard, understood & get support. Heartbreaking, triggering & validating 💔
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When serious warnings about vulnerable children go unexplored, the consequences can be devastating. The DfE has been warned about Mossbourne. What has it done to establish whether children remain at risk?
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Thank you @_Chris_Coghlan for saying it how it is & not dressing it up. There needs to be serious, public consequences for both the institutions and the individuals who fail kids in cases like this.
Local authorities are calculating that it’s cheaper to deny support for SEND families. To put it starkly, this lawbreaking is resulting in dead children. independent.co.uk/voices/sen…
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Excellent & harrowing thread. Highly disturbing. Some may remember a certain teacher sharing their delight on how they humiliated students, boys & girls, who needed the toilet. All endorsed by their HoD & HT. Loved watching their HT's hairdryer treatment too. @RachelFairfiel1
New: Parents complain of children having had toileting “accidents” at south London academy, with bathrooms locked, as trust also faces questions over CCTV installed in washrooms
educationuncovered.co.uk/new…
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No parent wants to receive emails about swimming lessons, pantomime trip or a residential when their child can’t attend school & has never even attended that school because they said they can’t meet need but are registered for statistics only.
What a sham. We’ve been deserted
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New: Parents complain of children having had toileting “accidents” at south London academy, with bathrooms locked, as trust also faces questions over CCTV installed in washrooms
educationuncovered.co.uk/new…
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A dead child left in a hotel homeless and zero education regardless of their EHCP in @CamdenCouncil Just ask @Georgia_Gould about this child. She oversaw his case personally and failed him
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Local authorities are calculating that it’s cheaper to deny support for SEND families. To put it starkly, this lawbreaking is resulting in dead children. independent.co.uk/voices/sen…
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The fact that the headmistress thins the boys SEND needs were met even after he killed himself is appalling and deeply concerning. She’s clearly not faced up to the part she played in this tragedy.
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Heartbreaking news of the emotional cruelty inflicted on some warm/strict MAT regimes. At last the collective responsibility of adults involved at all levels is no longer a secret. Including GBs/Members/Trustees. A rare naming of one in particular yesterday. Floodgates open?
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How embarrassing. Bennett appears to need some legal professional development @educationgovuk
Yet again Bennett is wrong legally. Thus is precisely why I've forced rescission of unlawful exclusions, why families win disability discrimination cases against schos in the First Tier Tribunal & is clearly detailed in s15. Don't listen to this charlatan: teapawt.org/tombennett71/status/21…
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Weird, weird academy schools
Coroner links 15 year old boy's death by suicide to rigidly strict school rules & severe punishments. Will issue PFD
Taylor Lee was suspended after he complained & challenged the harsh discipline
Mass child abuse
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PIP living criteria at rate being discussed. You must be unable to complete an activity safely, to an acceptable standard repeatedly, & in a reasonable time (less than twice as long as an average person) Tasks Eg toilet needs, bathing, dressing, communicating, managing money etc
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High-control schools are detrimental to the mental health of pupils, staff, and parents. The damage done by this trend is devastating the sooner we move away from them the better for all.
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Maybe I should get that proposal in to @researchED1 for an evidence (ie law, binding authorities & legal precedents) informed presentation... would they accept it? Who'd like to see that hapoen?
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After 2 years of litigation, the first trial regarding allegations of abuse began Monday. #AgainstRestraint
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A summary of "C&C", which is pretty much my go to when helping SEND families challenge lawbreaking schools. Yet not one HT I've taken on yet has known if this landmark case: stammeringlaw.org.uk/c-c-v-s…
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This 2024 report highlighted the lack of official analysis on this crucial area of children’s interaction with school: pbe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads…
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"KTS v Milby School" which also set an excellent new precedent that a school & staff can be named when found guilty of disability discrimination at Tribunal (I know there's several cases about to go public in the press & name school/staff): gov.uk/administrative-appeal…
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DfE shows no sign of wanting to do any analysis of impact of school behaviour systems in the round on young people, which cases such as this should surely provoke. @LucyMPowell Has there been any reaction from DfE to this case?