Sharon L. Smith (not ‘mum’) 🦩🌸😼🍹🌊 Profile picture
PhD researcher/becoming-nomad dabbling with philosophical approaches to SEN/disability/inclusion/belonging/coproduction/parents/subjectivity/risk/vulnerability
Oct 12, 2022 11 tweets 2 min read
If anyone ever tells you that parents want to go to SENDIST tribunal please know they’re liars! This process breaks even the strongest of parents… even when you apparently ‘win’

The truth is nobody ‘wins’

1/10 Tomorrow we meet the judge and local authority - as we are 99% there so agreed we didn’t need the scheduled panel hearing just a consent order.

On paper we ‘win’ in as much that the assessments and basic PfA provision we have been asking for since 2019 are being provided

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Feb 24, 2022 74 tweets 7 min read
Starter of thread about the @NDSPolicyGroup meeting this evening.

Dr Corcoran (DSRF and Hart group) is chairing tonight’s session it seems (as she has done previously)

Scrolling through smiling photos about the NDSPG before it starts… to a bit of Elvis (a cover) Baroness Hollins has changed her schedule to be here. Update about how we ‘guys’ are going to play an important role in the consultation process re the guidance