NEW POST: What would a well-functioning further education system for young people with SEND look like? Ruth Perry of Natspec explains what they’ve found and wants your suggestions (via form link in post) specialneedsjungle.com/well-functioni…

NEW Episode of SNJ in Conversation with part 1 of a series looking back at a decade of #SEND in the Children and Families Act. First up is @cyclingtheseaso, now of the Disabled Children's Partnership, but in 2012, he was the SEND man at Department for Education specialneedsjungle.com/children-and-f… #CFA10yearson

NEW POST: A giveaway today, and a review by SNJ’s @SusieLenihan of #MentalHealth and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Learning Difficulties. A Guide for Educators, written by Kirstie Rees specialneedsjungle.com/review-mental-…

NEW POST: Parent campaigners: We need to suspend the SEND Safety Valve programme: Rachel Filmer explains why, and how you can sign to help. specialneedsjungle.com/stop-safety-va…

NEW POST: More parent carers stage SEND protests—this time in Cheshire West and Chester, where in a survey, 92.3% said engaging with their local SEN Team was "actively detrimental to their mental health" specialneedsjungle.com/parent-carers-…

NEW POST: @CatrionaMoore13 asks if “reforming” the system is what’s needed to fix SEND, when the real problem still doesn’t seem to have been accepted by those in power. Plus the commitments we need from the next government. specialneedsjungle.com/more-system-re…

NEW POST: Join our joint campaign to #SaveOurChildrensRights. We've launched in The Guardian with a letter cosigned by 100 SEND charities & groups, academics, disability campaigners & celebrities, incl Chris Packham and Christine McGuinness specialneedsjungle.com/save-our-child…

Today, we launch the #SaveOurChildrensRights joint campaign. Govt plans could remove EHC plans and weaken legal rights for children with SEND. We can’t let that happen. The law isn’t the problem - failure to follow it is. Join the campaign 👇saveourchildrensrights.org.uk

Hoping these headlines cause ministers to ask themselves, "What are we doing here?" #SaveOurChildrensRights

Campaigners have urged ministers not to get rid of 'educational health and care plans' for young people with special educational needs, describing them as "precious legal protections". It follows suggestions that the government may be looking to phase out EHCPs, which outline and

Every minister should be asked this.

Liz Kendall today in Work & Pensions Committee unintentionally making a stand against her own welfare policies: "DWP picks up the pieces of the problems that are deep rooted...poor health, poor opportunities, low skills, not enough jobs, those are the problems we have to tackle"

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo saveourchildrensrights.org.uk

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo What they actually said: “EHCPs are our only hope and I can’t see what would replace them.” mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m…

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo What they actually said: “My child won't be able to go to school if they take away her vital EHCP” mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m…

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo What they actually said: “Audrey is thriving – but she’s done so because she has had the right support. The difference an EHCP has is enormous.” mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m…

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo lawgazette.co.uk/news-focus/in-…

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo What they actually said: “Audrey’s EHCP has been crucial in allowing her to learn in a mainstream setting. Audrey loves school and being a part of the class.” mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m…

Ben Coleman Disabled Children's Partnership letuslearntoo It’s important the legal rights of children are maintained as the good outcomes are because children have EHCPs! #SaveOurChildrensRights Any SEND reform MUST include targeted funding and accountability that LAs deliver the provision in the EHCP. Do support saveourchildrensrights.org.uk

Thanks Thameslink for stranding a wheelchair user and his family at Farringdon after we found out that both the lift and escalators were out at St Pancras. The staff couldn’t have been less helpful. We’ve now missed the event we came to London for and paid a lot of money to do.