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Tim Doherty Profile picture
Tim Doherty
@Tim_ODoherty
Scottish affairs
Dec 2, 2025 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
A ridiculous claim. Ridiculous on its face, as "BIPOC" is not a thing in Britain, but I want to engage with this more substantively - and show what rubbish it actually is.

A full breakdown of ALN issues in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿: and why "waiting lists" are not amongst them.

🧵 1/22 In the original thread I was cautious not to make the link that "headline SEN has gone down, therefore outcomes are better" (if I could write it again, I wouldn't have said that the "special needs system was fixed" but that the recording of cases/overrepresentation of SEN had).
Sep 27, 2025 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
Half of all 2002/3-born Welsh children were granted SEN provision. However, against a backdrop of compounding dysfunction in Scotland and England, Wales turned the ship around.

How 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 grasped the nettle and fixed its special needs system: a comprehensive summary.

🧵1/25 Image In 2024 a report from the University of Bristol revealed that 47.8% of Welsh children born in 2002-3 were found to have special educational needs (SEN) at some point in their school career. The research sought to "underscore[] the substantial toll of SEN on academic achievement".