Sian Bailey Canary Clem You can both put your time foil hats down. The data is on the Gov’s website. 2023/2024: 593,486 2024/2025: 582,477 = 11,009 Number of children with EHCPs in PS: 2023/2024: 33,541 2024/2025: 37,825 Increase of 4,284 11,009 + 4,284 = 15,293. As of January 2025.

“The Prime Minister’s political career has been defined, in large part, by disowning views he previously held.” telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…

I lived in Singapore for almost a decade. It’s one of the richest countries in the world—top 3 globally by GDP per capita. Their streets are spotless, their services work, and they have hundreds of billions in reserves and assets (it’s potentially trillions). And yet… David

Hi Bilton School This is what celebrating British culture looks like and it’s perfectly fine. 🇬🇧

The Labour government’s inverted snobbery policy to slap 20% VAT on private school fees has unsurprisingly, spectacularly failed. 16,000 students have already exited mainstream independent schools. 44 schools have closed. More pupils into an already overstretched state sector.

Phillipson said kids are being “bombarded by manipulative content online”, as she vowed for them to be taught how to “separate fact from fiction”. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… Bridget Phillipson is the LAST person who is able to separate fact from fiction. The woman is a born liar.

The subject of 'gender identity' is not a rights issue but a safeguarding issue for children and it should be covered under 'online harms' along with porn. We don't teach children about the harms of porn by teaching them about the Digital Economy Act. The harms of 'gender

Labour's #VAT #IndependentSchools- Economic illiterate, will cost Gov an extra £650m PA, schools closing, pressure on Local Authorities, displaces children. Vindictive. Independent Schools Council GB News Stephen Pollard Alicia Kearns MP Guido Fawkes SEND Action Education Not Taxation Victoria

schoolsweek.co.uk/new-digital-di… A further example of how premium state schools are the ‘haves’ & less affluent schools get left behind. But I’m sure they’ll use it as a stick to beat independent schools with. #EducationNotTax

I was sitting next to Cllr. Alex Yip when he asked this excellent question. Not only should we not be taxing education, we should give tax relief to those that help the state by educating privately.

Rachel Reeves Gets Brutal Reality Check Just Hours After Claiming Labour Is Making 'Progress' On The Economy When is she going to take off her Labour VR set & see the mess she has made?🤷‍♀️ Mel Stride Andrew Griffith MP Victoria huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rachel-r… # via HuffPost UK Politics

“The private school exodus has begun and teachers are asking whether the government got its numbers wrong. In just one year, over 13,000 children have left the independent sector, the steepest drop in over a decade, and headteachers say the cause is clear: VAT on school fees.”

If there is anyone out there, who still doesn't grasp how perniciously anti-democratic Labour's VAT policy is, please wake up. They are deliberately wrecking the UK's global reputation for high quality schooling and their next step - is to ensure your child, votes only for them.

Already some 13,000 pupils have had to find places in state schools, 12 schools have closed citing VAT increases as a key reason. In Birmingham an estimated 1500 extra pupils now in state schools will cost the council at least £10m a year.

James Melville 🚜 In Birmingham the VAT policy has COST the council £10mill. Yup. Guess no bin collection for a little while....youtu.be/Ys4_RtR0jhc

We've all been called racist, 'far-right' or whatever else because we raised accurate concerns about the background of rapists and paedophiles who hunted vulnerable white girls in packs. Sign this govt petition to collect/release that data. It matters. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7306…

But remember it was going to buy 6,500 new teachers, breakfasts and affordable homes….The last time the UK had a government like this one was, the Sheriff of Nottingham was in it.

“State schools in Kent received ~100 enquiries in the 48 hours after a private school closed citing the VAT raid. Taxpayers have been left to foot a £1.2m bill. Labour’s claims that the policy will raise up to £1.7bn were a “pack of lies”. Neil O'Brien telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/stat…