Milly Gandy

Imagine waiting 37 weeks for the support you need to do your job. Access to Work delays are pushing Disabled people out of work. We need urgent change to fix this broken system and #SaveAccessToWork.

Excluding journalists from education events, alongside controversial SEND reforms that will weaken disabled children’s rights, raises serious concerns about transparency. #SEND schoolsweek.co.uk/journalists-sh…

We need smaller class sizes and more support staff. This would benefit ALL children and ALL staff. There are dizzying numbers of children persistently absent from school due to the mainstream environment. The white paper does nothing to address this. 150,000+ children failed.

Today we have our #SEND tribunal hearing for our child. Leading up to and during tribunal the LA have agreed to meeting our daughter's needs. Before they were insisting on widely inappropriate provision. And the government is going to tribunal rights away. lawgazette.co.uk/news/plan-to-h…

@YorkDisability @johnpringdns Without a functioning Access to Work programme 🙈

McFadden’s speech suggests ministers are set to renew efforts to pressure young disabled people into work disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfaddens-spee… via @johnpringdns

A fundamental failure to understand the problem with the FOI system isn't too many requests - it's too many refusals. Switch it so everything is automatically public unless exempt, and workload drops while trust rises. Fools. ft.com/content/2c34ad…

New #AccesstoWork applicants being told they could have to wait 37 weeks for decision, MPs hear disabilitynewsservice.com/new-access-to-… via @johnpringdns Yet #UKLabour Ministers say they want sick/disabled to work which they clearly don't when access to funds to aid that return takes 37 wks.

New Access to Work applicants being told they could have to wait 37 weeks for decision, MPs hear #AccessToWork #DWP @CommonsPAC disabilitynewsservice.com/new-access-to-…

Could not agree more and let's include the @NNPCF in this self-serving cabal. You are not there for parent/carers or the young people whose needs should be at the heart of all of this. You betray us all. Shame on You ! #NationalSendDisgrace

This is part of the problem with SEND advocacy - charities who take Govt money.

@Dis_PPL_Protest Not listening to parents of disabled children either lawgazette.co.uk/news/plan-to-h…

#PIP This is the first we’ve heard of it Disabled people finally asked to give opinions on Pip review morningstaronline.co.uk/article/disabl… #morningstaronline

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@SpcialNdsJungle Renata explains our worst fears at #SaveOurChildrensRights campaign have come true. The DfE has made up its mind re SEND tribunal before Reform consultation even ends! We’ve said it for a while but it’s truly now a #SENDNationalScandal facebook.com/share/p/1BMJKS…

@ScribblerPen @DWPgovuk It seems that this government does not really do Consultations because they've already decided what they want to do : lawgazette.co.uk/news/plan-to-h…

The @DWPgovuk had *8 months* to have this consultation on #PIP. Why is this only happening now, with leafing questions, limited accessibility, rushed in 10 weeks, with Easter in the middle ?!

@Georgia_Gould @BBCLondonNews Hopefully @BBCLondonNews will report the TRUE story. You are stripping away disabled childrens rights - whilst pretending that this is all great - you are not improving anything and are about to make things a million times worse lawgazette.co.uk/news/plan-to-h…

Great to sit down with @BBCLondonNews to talk about how our improvements to the SEND system will benefit families across London and answer questions from parents, teachers and school leaders about what the changes will mean for them. We’ll be sharing more answers to your questions next week! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Georgia_Gould It doesn't matter how much you try to dress this one up - you are not listening. You are literally betraying the powerful testimonies you have heard and then brazenly gaslighting us in trying to believe that you are "listening." lawgazette.co.uk/news/plan-to-h…

Your voice matters. Get involved in our SEND consultation and help us shape a system that supports every child and young person with SEND to achieve, thrive and fulfil their potential. gov.uk/government/con…

@SEND_Action Yeah - damn those pesky SEND Tribunals for ruling in parents favour over 95% of the time - because of LA's poor decision-making. AND the solution is to remove the SEND Tribunals ?!?!? 🙈 Shame on them

The SEND reforms will give more power to local authorities.

During Neurodiversity Celebration Week a Labour Government has decided without any proposed consultation to remove fundamental rights of appeal to SENDIST for CYP with SEN. Shame on them x.com/edreyesjourno/…