SEND CRISIS - LIVERPOOL

SEND CRISIS Liverpool Response to LCC’s SEND Update We wanted to fully consider @lpoolcouncil SEND update and give you our view before commenting. Please see our full response below 👇🏻

Lawyers have challenged the Government over whether a decision not to consult on key elements of SEND reforms were 'lawfully made' 🔴 Connie Dimsdale reports Read more: trib.al/Gg1Ija3

WEBINAR RECORDING: SNJ's Legal Round Table on the #SEND Proposals in the Schools White Paper, with expert SEND solicitors, Hayley Mason Seager, Polly Sweeney, Eleanor Wright, and Kate Cox. Led by the SNJ team specialneedsjungle.com/webinar-record…

The government have completely lost it. Hard to imagine a worse set of proposals for #SEND reform. We will fight this!

On SNJ Today: An accountability group says the government is damaging its social contract with families, manufacturing consent for SEND reforms that does not exist. @civicwatchblog says it's an assault on democratic standards that must be resisted specialneedsjungle.com/not-our-name-m…

@TWSENADVICE Just like LAs, weasel words and unlawful!

@educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP You’ve already decided to remove children’s rights. The consultation is an insult. rookirwinsweeney.co.uk/government-res…

The government has admitted that decisions on changes to the powers of the SEND Tribunal and proposals to shift the legal duty to secure provision in Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) from local authorities to schools have already been made. rookirwinsweeney.co.uk/government-res…

Our Children matter, they are our future.. We will not be silenced! @SendCrisis @educationgovuk #send @global @SENDShowUK @BBCNWT

📢 Free CPD training📢 Professionals, you don’t want to miss this webinar with Adele Wadey, our Parent Support Specialist. For more details: bit.ly/3OKJbv8 #WitherslackGroup #EHCP #EHCPProcess #CPD #SEN

@IanByrneMP @DanCardenMP @mariaeaglemp @KimJohnsonMP @PaulaBarkerMP Will you stand with us? Lpoolsendcrisis@gmail.com @ADDvancedSol @LivPaCL8

The SEND reforms will give more power to local authorities.

NEW POST: The DfE is consulting on updating Statutory Guidance for Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school. SNJ's @Tanialt discusses some interesting inclusions, and startling omissions. Here’s what you need to know: specialneedsjungle.com/consultation-s…

SEND parents traumatised by system abuse: Echoing our articles on this, a mum says battling the council and local health services is "like being locked in an abusive relationship, but you can't walk away because your young person needs that service". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Are you supporting us @IanByrneMP @DanCardenMP @KimJohnsonMP @mariaeaglemp

@contactfamilies Well done Amanda 👏

Thousands of children with life-threatening conditions are not getting vital NHS support. Parents are left doing complex nursing tasks alone, night after night. Last week, our health lead Amanda and Contact Change Maker Helen talked to local authority leaders about the battles families face and what needs to change. Find out more and sign our petition to demand urgent reform 👉 contact.org.uk/care-petition

Coming up in next Wednesday's online Community Network Group. Click here to join eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Free to access, all welcome - register once.

@Georgia_Gould @BBCLondonNews Families don’t support these reforms, which will weaken disabled children’s rights, ration their support, undermine inclusion and reduce accountability. facebook.com/share/p/1CPY8d…

NEW SNJ POST: Rights on paper, not in practice. Parent advocate, Amber Windsor, explains what the legal aid cuts warn us about the government's SEND proposals specialneedsjungle.com/rights-paper-n…

🎉🎉 BRAND NEW 🎉🎉 Brain Injury Support Group starting on Thursday 24th April here at Liverpool Carers Centre 🫶🏼 This is for Carers caring for someone with an Acquired Brain Injury Contact Rob for information 👌🏼 @LivCarersCentre @LocalSolutions_ @lpoolcouncil @shellsouthern1

Watch this space⬇️⬇️ @IPSEAcharity @SpcialNdsJungle @SEND_Action @LpoolSENDCRISIS @SendNational @tinkerbellbites @BarnsleySEND @tonylloyd50 @SNC_briz_sglos @SENDAdvocatesEa @Sen_passionate @CarrieGrant1 @AnnaKennedy1 @AdamHighcliffe @draevans @jimgblair @SchoolCuts