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Setting the agenda for Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2021
Solving the SEND Crisis We are told that participation and coproduction are fundamental, but so many families experience discrimination, gaslighting and stonewalling when trying to engage. Read more:
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@Ria1984 Including chemical restraint, not necessarily used in many education settings, but certainly in adults services and in children inpatient settings
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RT @ICARSBanRandS: š ICARS support the call for an independent, child-protection led review! @AsIAmIreland & @InclusionIre are right to puā¦
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RT @JuliaCa20602661: I gave the absolute last of my energy organising a meeting at the House of Commons today over 2000+ preventable Essexā¦
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RT @senmum05: I know this has really upset you today @JuliaCa20602661 and you feel betrayed but this is an indication of the calibre of MPā¦
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RT @clairempmillar: Just watched Idris Elbaās āOur Knife Crime Crisisā. What a moving documentary, only missing one thing - the role of #spā¦
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RT @theRRNetwork: The RRN has lots of resources about #RestraintReduction completely FREE to access Our webinar reducing the long term useā¦
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RT @stomababe: To my disabled friends: Your existence is not just valuable; it is essential. You enrich the world in ways that cannot be diā¦
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RT @warwickmansell: Am experimenting with a regular diary column on my website, perhaps slightly similar in format to the one I wrote for Eā¦
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Are children incapable of making moral judgements?
Yes I am being serious. If child says teacher is being racist, back the teacher. Whatever the child says, back the teacher. If you donāt, you are letting the child down and allowing them to play you for a fool.
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RT @CommonsEd: Tomorrow, 10am š We're continuing our work on children's social care, hearing directly from care-experienced young people.ā¦
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RT @ElaineMcgreevy: "Cara, now 21, would sometimes have to be restrained to prevent her from self-harming but says most of her restraints cā¦
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RT @DudeAdhd: @sendagenda I donāt have an issue with the word impairment, nor the word disorder, or the word disability. These are descriptā¦
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@DudeAdhd Sorry if the "you" in my post felt directed, it was more a consideration for wider discussion...
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@DudeAdhd And with that the risk is that authorities 'normalise' Neurodivergence and argue that no special provision, or protection by law needs to be made
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@DudeAdhd I do think that there is a drive to undermine the legal rights of disabled people through the exploitation of certain movements, such as the Neurodiversity Paradigm, in which everyone can be seen to have an area of difference under this collective term
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@DudeAdhd I personally think that the term 'impairments', used in both in the Equality Act and the UN Convention on Rights on People with Disabilities needs thinking about, as does their use of person first rather than identity first language, but it is a start
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@DudeAdhd '... the social model' of disability. It recognises that people with impairments are excluded by barriers created by society, and so are disabled by inaccessible services, barriers in the built environment or prejudice and stigma..'
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@DudeAdhd "Youāre disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a āsubstantialā and ālong-termā negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities."
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RT @teamsquarepeg: Our evidence to the Childrenās Wellbeing & Schools Bill has been published. We welcome this child-centred Governmentāsā¦
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