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Jul 6

A note on morality policing. Yes, transparency is important. Yes, accountability is essential. Yes openness is fundamental. However, asserting motives that are slanderous & defamatory or which calls into question the credibility of our voice & work, that’s where the buck stops.

Most at the mo are focussed on the SEND Green Paper. Mighty organisations & experienced SEND veterans are collectively turning their eyes on it and working hard to effectively challenge, debunk & evidence agenda. Rightly so. The implications in woolly writings pose new threats.

However. The real & present danger right now is the Schools Bill. It enters Report stage next week. Lords have had repeated calls to delay & extend Committee stage to the Autumn ignored. There is no time to put in due diligence, effectively work checks & balances.

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Jul 4

So much to agree with here. So much I ponder, talk about in policy meetings, challenge. “Need not diagnosis: Towards a more realistic language and understanding. The Michael Lewis Inaugural Lecture, LSBU” / stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and-p…

“‘That’s not what it is about. For me, it’s not what I am experiencing, it’s what your writings might mean for public policy. That's what concerns me. And that’s not just about my daughter.’”/

“Her warning about dissociating philosophy from the everyday realities of care is essential, especially, perhaps, in the groves of academe.”/

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Mar 13

“It affects everything because collagen is in everything. It’s a multi-systemic illness, and there’s not very much research into it at the moment.” wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/19961622.…

‘Due to her late diagnosis and a lack of compassion she has faced, she feels that more needs to be done…to tackle the illness, which affects around 1 in 5000 people in the UK.’

“I think as well if you’ve been well to a certain point of your life, and then suddenly you are considered disabled, people really seem to struggle with that concept." Well said! We are all likely to be disabled at some point in our lives due illness, injury, MH.

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Mar 13

I was reliably informed during a conversation with policy writers in a well-known high profile org that an LA Lead had told them “you’d be amazed how much non-attendance at school is down to Munchausens by Proxy.” I blanched. You see that was levelled at me by services once.

My child at that time had ‘perplexing’ presentation no one could find the cause. His health declined & got any better for months, school attendance dwindled. Neuralgic episodes emerged, hallucinations, nightmares, dissociative behaviour. We were losing him and no one in primary

health or local hospital could figure it out. That’s when they concluded it must be me. I was anxious. I was making him ill. I defy anyone to hold their child for nights on end while they shake in unending unimaginable pain. His joints swelled over the months.

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Mar 12

‘"For years, that contract has been clear, parents have a responsibility to get their children to school, with minimum absences, and in return schools do their level best to educate and look after those children," she said.’ tes.com/magazine/news/…

Unless Ms Spielman & others are prepared to consider the impact of current curriculum raised levels under Gove reforms, high-stakes testing, zero tolerance on behaviour, uniform, attendance; the flawed beliefs woven into systems arising from statistically incorrect research via

Working Together guidance; that education has not kept pace with neuroscience & child development research re. importance of attachment, relationships, trauma-informed practice, psychological safety, play, movement, creative arts, autonomy for wellbeing, mental health, belonging,

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Mar 12

‘“Most parents aren’t equipped to do it, and if they are motivated by their own or their child’s anxiety, rather than a deeply held desire to home-educate – the outcomes for their child are unlikely to be great,” she will add.’ standard.co.uk/news/uk/ofsted…

‘Motivated by their own or their child’s anxiety’! I mean, seriously? How much ignorance is laced into this thought process and statement?! Clearly, Ms. Spielman has no experience of mental illness, caring for a person battling it, or how disabling it is.

As a parent, watching your child spiral while you are threatened with fines, prosecutions, prison, is utterly horrific and yes, anxiety provoking (unsurprisingly). And when the cause of your child’s crisis is directly linked to school and institutional systemic failings,

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