Steven Wright

Several journalists have made contact asking for my FOI requests regarding Neale Wade. Why does it take a school to hit rock bottom before alarms are raised? It’s not like there weren’t red flags 🚩 two years ago… better late than never I suppose.

We would like to wish all our schools, pupils, staff and communities a very happy half term break.

@drsanjoykumar This is how local Cllr who held education and health portfolio and Ghosted me on day one talks about me. She’s never been disciplined and is now Deputy Mayor and will be atrneodng fundraisers for the Mayors charity this year (that I co-founded). We parents of mentally ill fought for better for years. I promise you.

It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall for the meeting that decided this was a good idea. What were they thinking? (Genuine question).

@amanda_spielman Subject to review by IRP.

This is a dreadful idea. Headteachers and governors are responsible for the safety and welfare of all children. They have authority to exclude children as a last resort for good reason.

@Bonniepurple @amanda_spielman Unlawful.

@amanda_spielman I have been a governor on a PEX panel. It was not easy for anyone. When I heard what the school had tried it was clear that this particular kid needed more than a large school could offer. Sadly the only way for him to access what he needed was the PEX. It shouldn’t be that way.

@TheSecretSendM1 @suffolkcc My guess is that the March @Ofstednews monitoring inspection report is less than complementary. reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/44/80…

Something very strange is going on over at @suffolkcc SEND services 🤔

@DreyfusJames Major Neuheim in Private Shultz!

I’m dedicating this entire week to watching one of my favourite actors ever, Ian Richardson. Was lucky enough to briefly meet him once after his performance in “The Creeper”. Could play anything, but was also one of our most subtly gifted comedic actors.

"Isolation rooms came up repeatedly across our conversations. Young people were removed from class and placed alone for the day with a pile of work and no help" New report on NEETs offers criticism of "rigid" discipline systems: onemillionfutures.substack.com/p/inside-the-m…

Today, Coram's Children Legal Centre publishes a new report on school exclusions, highlighting how tens of thousands of children are being removed from mainstream education through informal practices with no legal safeguards or oversight. 🔗 coram.org.uk/resource/fairn…

To summarise, The Active Learning Trust are lying, gaslighting arseholes, a failing Trust and… what are they doing with all the money 💰 @bphillipsonMP stop turning a blind eye to corruption

This isn’t new. We all know those schools, that tell parents they can’t meet need, that encourage pupils with SEND to go elsewhere, that make their rules unachievable and make no adaption. We also know the schools that pick up the slack and go above and beyond!

@warwickmansell interesting read from our MP @SteveBarclay regarding Active Learning Trust failures.

@intel_lady I am literally shuddering though

@intel_lady Good but you didn't quite make my skin crawl off like the real thing.

'Dr' Helen Webberly hits back at 'Cis' Lesbians following Cambridge Union debate. It's high time a non lesbian like Helen lectured 'silly little girls' aka 'cis gendered Lesbians' on how bigoted they are.

@damechatprrr @Ria1984 Ah, a bot from a parallel universe. I feel silly for not spotting it sooner.

@stevenmwright @Ria1984 Its never suggested, by anyone, that children who are violent and misbehaving at home, are not having their needs met at home - even though we know that many are not. Its still never said.

I think the view that if a child is violent, misbehaving, using bad language is ONLY because the teacher is not meeting need is just ridiculous. Children with and without neurodiversity can become dysregulated for what appears to be no reason at all. When everything… 🧵

That's settled then. Item five on next year's agenda: investigate cause of carpet degradation.

@damechatprrr @Ria1984 Of course, and your point is?

@stevenmwright @Ria1984 Sometimes it's true

If you're really autistic/adhd we'll diagnose you, otherwise you'll just have to accept you're on the spectrum, but not enough to have a diagnosis 🤦🏼‍♀️

@damechatprrr @Ria1984 yes they do

@stevenmwright @Ria1984 No one says children with profound disabilities (which is the reason a social worker would be involved) are not getting their needs met at home.