Musk in Jerusalem.
05.04.2025 18:51
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Musk in Jerusalem.
Last government cut payments for those looking for work, which created an incentive to get placed in the "no sanctions" group. So then this government cuts funding for that group to try and reduce the incentive.
CEOs and school leaders are turning away SEND pupils and the practice 'needs calling out', the ASCL union head has said, as he called on leaders to adopt 'ethical' approaches and become 'models for the next generation'.
This is a long running financial inclusion issue resulting from poor Child Trust Fund/Junior ISA legislation-Young people with disabilities deserve #Change NOW to be able to access their savings without incurring legal costs
Thankyou Jessie Hewitson and the Stone family.
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Councils across England are paying families thousands of pounds after failing to provide SEND support set out in education, health and care plans. But experts say the costs can be less than providing the special educational needs provision children are entitled to
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NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social looks at Ofsted/CQC Area SEND Inspection outcomes and finds most are mediocre. But, he asks, are inspectors looking to go easier on local areas?
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Lengthy investigation into EHCP quality by @johndickenssw.bsky.social - worth a read, even if you're a parent who's already completely familiar with the slop that gets routinely served up in plans
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🫸 'While there are times when moving a child to a new school is necessary, far too often these moves amount to little more than offloading a ‘problem’'
@edwardtimpson.bsky.social
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“Newcastle & West Berkshire both had a pupil who had been waiting two years”
“Many councils also said they did not record the data – suggesting they may not be aware of the scale of the problem.”
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Families appeal to Tribunal because it's where they can get the "best deal" . parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Good thread this, with local government nabobs playing out some of their most rancid bangers to a mostly unimpressed crowd
Powerful graphic illustrating your current topic #schoolrefusal @mrjamesob.bsky.social
How mean-spirited of them.
Observer article text: The government is trumpeting its policy of introducing free breakfast clubs into all primary schools in England as key to its efforts to cut child poverty, as ministers appear to have ruled out meeting the estimated cost of £3bn a year to end the two-child cap on benefits. Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, announced the first 750 schools that will become “early adopters” of breakfast clubs, saying that 67,000 of the 180,000 pupils set to benefit come from the most disadvantaged areas of England. The policy is now being sold not only as a way to improve school attendance, educational performance and attainment, but also as a primary lever for reducing poverty. One of Labour’s general election pledges was to roll out the plan across the whole of England during its first term in office to drive up standards and improve opportunities for all. Announcing the first 750 schools to join the pilot scheme, the Department for Education said that breakfast clubs had “an important role to play in the government’s commitment to remove the stain of child poverty”. Breakfast clubs have been shown to improve children’s reading, writing and mathematics, with improved concentration and focus. But Labour MPs said that while they strongly supported breakfast clubs, it was clear that the emphasis on the clubs helping to end child poverty was evidence of a wider initiative to “soften us up” to be told that the two-child benefit cap would remain.
Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks.
The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.
‘…it is understood Keir Starmer is preparing to offer EU nations a youth mobility scheme similar to Australia’s.’
An important step, but there are conditions.
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NEW BLOG: "...excluding large numbers of pupils is a deliberate policy of the Athena Trust and, let’s make no bones about it, this is damaging children: the poorest children and, disproportionately, those with special education needs (SEND)."
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Question from Mr Luke Charters, Labour (MP for York Outer) To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effectiveness of implementing cohort-based education, health and care plans
You can tell when the lobbyists have paid a visit: new greasy SEND euphemism just dropped, 'cohort-based EHCPs'
DfE response parks the bus
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Coincidental random name or sinister conspiracy @profaliceroberts.bsky.social?