Alison Sauer

@oidel_edu @UNIGEnews @NDLaw It was an intensive but amazing week Thank you

Just wrapped up the 3rd edition of our Summer University on Human Rights & Education in Geneva! A huge thank you to our speakers, participants & partners for making this an inspiring and enriching experience. Let’s keep the dialogue going! 🗣️📚🇺🇳 #RightToEducation #HumanRights

@annelongfield Children's SC does need reform but mostly needs money and better skilled social workers The Register is a farce, based on ideology, rhetoric and rumour.You know this Anne,you were the author of much of the rhetoric and rumour Let's have policy based on facts / need

I’ve campaigned for over 5 years for a home schooled register. This & other measures in today’s Bill will boost child safeguarding and have cross party & cross sector support. It's crucial its progress is not put at risk.ncb.org.uk/about-us/media…

@jon_severs @jasminenorden @ellencph @jonathansimons @LeoraCruddas @dmthomas90 @andrewoneillHT @EduPolicyInst @Samfr @Carter6D The whole bill is dystopian. It undermines parental responsibility and choice and inserts the state and state choices where they are neither wanted or needed. It's dangerous and not in the best interests of children

How many freedoms will academies retain if the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill goes through as is? Very, very few find @jasminenorden @ellencph Comments from @jonathansimons @LeoraCruddas @dmthomas90 @andrewoneillHT @EduPolicyInst @Samfr @Carter6D tes.com/magazine/analy…

Rachel, Frankly? You should be ashamed. This response appears to be nothing more than a purely opportunistic grab at an appalling case, aimed at pushing through contentious legislation that has long been in the works. It would seem you either have wholly insufficient knowledge of Sara Sharif’s case or are willfully choosing to disregard the fundamental issues at its core—issues which bear no resemblance to the narrative you describe. As social workers across the country will already tell you—there was ample legislation to keep Sara safe. This case will be remembered in history as a stark and tragic reminder of the risks vulnerable children face when a Local Authority, including its maintained schools, wholly abandons its statutory duties: to identify, assess, monitor, and act when a child is vulnerable or at risk. Specifically, on the Home Education Point: Surrey County Council already has a comprehensive two-page policy that clearly documents what should happen when a child is unexpectedly removed from school. How much of this was followed? None. - Was Sara’s removal properly reported? No. - Was she recognised as a Child in Need or a Child in Need of Protection? No. - Was her past or present vulnerability identified? No. - Was a referral made to Inclusion? No. - Was any attempt made to assess whether she was receiving a ‘suitable education’? No. And this is before addressing the many, many opportunities missed during her six years at school. Six years in which every single behavioural cue, every cry for help, was ignored. And the four years before that? The same story. No amount of legislation will ever keep a child safe where there is an abject refusal to follow it, let alone hold anyone accountable for ignoring it—again, and again, and again. It is hard to imagine a worse example of systemic indifference, appalling maladministration, and unbelievably poor judgement. Meanwhile, as you push through legislation that would have made absolutely no difference in this case, Surrey County Council is quietly lobbying to ensure that a “nice, quiet, and quick little internal safeguarding review” will suffice. And worse still? They already have just the person for the job. No pesky questions. No awkward scrutiny. Just a tidy little whitewash with a bow on it—and a glossy new Bill to put the whole nasty business behind us 🤬🤯😳 As Children’s Commissioner, are you really going to let this happen? If you won’t demand real answers for Sara, then who on earth will? Measure what matters.

@LoisMcLatch If you had 4 children with SEN and hadn't had any sleep for 10 years and git pregnant by accident what would you do? If you were 18 at university what would you do? If you were on a subsistence wage with no family support what would you do? That's your stats.

@LoisMcLatch That's actually not a lot. 1 in 3 in their lifetime. Not 1 in 3 per year. Go look at the stats in China and Russia. They have an abortion problem. We don't have an economy that supports women to have children and look after them themselves. Also the Special Needs crisis

We have an abortion problem in the UK. 1 in 3 women (!!) will have an abortion in their lifetime. Yet NO little girl grows up wanting to have an abortion. So what’s going wrong?

@ImRobWalker Hi Rob, it hurts, I know. Rise the wave. Let the wave wash over you too. Feel all the feelings. All of them are legitimate There is no right way to feel right now. As the days pass you will accept that she is gone. Doesn't lessen the pain but you'll get through the day better.

I lost my Mom, early this morning and I don’t quite know what to do. I’m heartbroken and in pain.

Three out of seven talks are sponsored/ led by the formula industry (who are also headline sponsors). The conference seeks to update midwives on latest best practice. How is this balanced, evidence based and in the best interests of parents @BJMidwifery ?

@Girlguiding Many of us in GGUK are considering our positions as a result. There is likely to be a mass exodus of volunteers as a result We are disgusted with the actions of a board that is not making reasoned, clear and consulted upon decisions.

A heartfelt thank you goes to every person who has been part of BGO. The sisterhood, support, empowerment and safe spaces that you have provided for girls across the world has been amazing and will be remembered. You will always be part of a worldwide sisterhood of guiding.

Earlier this year, Girlguiding's board of trustees made the decision to change British Girlguiding Overseas (BGO). This means that from 1 September 2023, BGO units will close in the Middle East and Africa, Asia, Benelux and France, and European countries.

@Girlguiding Still not answering questions regarding the detail, speed and lack of consultation

@AlisonCSauer Hi Alison, further information is available here, including a breakdown: girlguiding.org.uk/information-fo…

This is an update on the process and next steps following the announcement about our activity centres.

@Girlguiding You haven't given us significant evidence that individual Centres are failing..... Transparent as a brick wall is how this decision looks with no room for consultation or alternatives

We haven’t received any significant new information that would change the overall sustainability of the activity centres or affect the recommendation to sell them.

@davidmbarnett She's a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. And that is the mantle that goes with the order. Sophie wore it too

I love how Kate looked like the lead character in a Netflix rom-com about a princess in a fictional European principality, made by Americans.

@csjthinktank Ahhh that report that ignored facts and evidence and didn't speak to the home educating families? The one based on untruths, rhetoric and rumour?

🙌Flick Drummond MP will today bring forward a Ten Minute Rule Bill calling for the implementation of a Children Not in School Register. We called for a register to be implemented in our recent ‘Out of Sight and Out of Mind’ report. 📚Read our report: 👉centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

@the_he_byte @NickFletcherMP Watch the debate at 4.30pm today.

@NickFletcherMP Agreed. Elective home education is exactly that - parents taking responsibility for their own children. Responsible parents deserve respect from the State, not stigma. No to state expansion into the home. nickfletcher.org.uk/node/1368 #home-ed-debate

@Andrew4Pendle I have no words... Hope you had fun

Good morning from MediaCityUK

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@Glitterbeard_ Is your life so empty that you have to fill it with mindless mockery of others? If you were at school I'd call it classic bullying derived from envy. But you aren't at school and should really know better by now. Zack is lovely. You not so much.

@danthewhaler Wild Films is currently making a short film about this story

Bowers, Wilson and Cherry-Garrard leaving for the emperor penguin colony at Cape Crozier. "We were camped that night about half a mile in from the Barrier edge. The temperature was -56° (F). We had a baddish time, being very glad to get out of our shivering bags next morning."

Yup He's spot on