Hackney Special Education Crisis

Young people with SEND were a huge part of the #SENDNationalCrisis march in London today. Here's some of our young people giving voice to their hopes and fears about their futures. #Hackney teen Melissa is in the centre with her banner #OurKidsMatter

I'm giving 9 bursaries to students who are applying to @SwanseaUni to study Maths this year. I particularly want to help students from a similar background to my own (comp and on free school meals) but these bursaries are available to all ❤️ good luck ❤️ swansea.ac.uk/maths/maths-ac…

The post office in France (La Poste) is publicly owned. Its services include banking, insurance, driving tests, fresh food delivery and home visits for older people.

How was Tory peer Michelle Mone allowed to buy £46m of unfit for purpose PPE from China and sell it to the NHS for £122m This could not have just happened by chance. This was enabled & planned by....

But the fact that the conditions of this additional money make it so hard to spend it in special schools (and I'm sure beyond) matters. Our pupils need it as much as any other but I'm afraid this wasn't designed with them in mind. 4/4 #rantover #sameold

Never mind the legalities of someone buying £46m of (unfit for purpose) PPE from China then selling it to the NHS for £122m - the morality of doing it when the world was on its knees is reprehensible. Add in that it was done by a Tory peer and we are in uncharted waters of sleaze

Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?

Think about this. In Norway, CEOs make 11x more than their average worker. In the United States, CEOs make 351x more than their average worker. Does anybody seriously believe CEOs in this country work 351 times harder than the average American worker? I don't think so.

Private water utilities dumped raw untreated sewage into our rivers and seas 403,171 times in 2020, with not a single river in England passing the legal water quality standards.  These polluters made £2.8bl in profit (from us) last year.

Eldest kid has been fired from @wagamama_uk because they wouldn't go to work while testing positive for Covid. Fired. I've got no words.

Research on 11-17 year olds presenting to A&E with self-harm, shows a 3 x ⬆️ risk for boys with ASD than boys without. ADHD in boys & girls had a 4-x ⬆️ risk. School absence also showed raised self-harm risk. ⤵️ 80% attendance 🟰 3x ⬆️ self-harm risk. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

I think no one should engage with Katharine Birbalsingh she just loves the attention too much.

I'm quite sure there'll be a queue of people from around the world for this job! 👇

This is to my #DisabilityTwitter I’m working on a project and want to echo your voices please. So question what do you want the government to priorities in the next Parliament specifically disability related? Please keep it clean and respectful! 👍🏻🙌🏻

We are staring into the abyss of the b/h w/end not knowing if he will miss a week of meds 'cos of your poor service. This will trigger distress, meltdown & self reg issues. And who is monitoring his health for his titration? Or is that just performative? #autism #adhd #hackney

@NHS_ELFTcalled the service today to get a prescription for his ADHD meds (Strattera) only to be told (by the lovely receptionist) there are no psych docs at the service ATM. Shocking. Med request must got to a pysch in the adult MH service not on site

1/3 @NHS_ELFT I am shocked at your underinvestment and deprioritisation of your adult #ADHD service. It has no permanent psychiatrists. They all come and go every few months on rotation. Meanwhile my stressed #autistic son has to cope with the churn

Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell is scathing about the new plan: “MPs from across the House have already expressed concerns about adopting a policy which Australia abandoned as a failure...

Channel migrants to be sent to Rwanda under plan by Priti Patel to deport asylum seekers. By @ChaplainChloe, who is in Rwanda with the Home Secretary: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

@RedPenEleanor @southwestehcp @Magdale03028309 @AspieDeLaZouch If LA stopped spending increasing amounts of money on performative change to disguise their effort to continue with Business as Usual, there would be more money to spend on early intervention.