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📈 What’s behind the surge in suspensions? Suspensions in England rose by 40% in autumn 2023, with permanent exclusions up 25%. Secondary schools bore the brunt, particularly in the North East and Yorkshire. Post-pandemic challenges, rising child poverty, and behavioural issues are key contributors, disproportionately affecting pupils with special educational needs. Solutions include early intervention, trauma-informed strategies, and building stronger school-community ties. Success stories highlight approaches like restorative justice, small group sessions, and on-site alternative provision. For more information click below! #Education #Inclusion #alternativeprovision

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97% of exclusions in primary are for children with SEND.😱😱😱! 97%. Surely this is clear evidence of discrimination?? Our behaviour policies are quite literally neuro-exclusive. Excluding people who, through no fault of their own, think and behave differently than the "norm". It is time to end this persecution of vulnerable people. Our children deserve so much better. I think it's time to go to the courts! Who's with me? #behaviour #discrimination #SEND #ADHD #autism #disabled #dyslexia #trauma #executivefunction #exclusion #neurodiversity #neuroexclusive #educationreform

School exclusions and suspensions are at a record high: exclusions in the 2022/23 academic year are up 44 per cent year on year, while suspensions are up 36 per cent. Stephen Morgan, education minister, has said: “our education system is failing to meet the needs of children with additional needs." Teachers find our reports, such as the gaps in learning report, a useful way to analyse which students need additional support and intervene early. #SchoolExclusions #SchoolTracking #PupilProgress

I welcome this. I really do. But I also have strong reservations. I’ve said it before - but Labour’s plans seem to be skewed towards getting as many neurodivergent children into mainstream schools as possible. First, this requires a sea change in attitudes to learning. It requires better training in and understanding of autism. It requires the dropping of a one size fits all approach. It demands attention to individual need. Second, it ignores the fact that many neurodivergent children simply won’t cope within a busy, over-crowded mainstream context. The overwhelm they will experience will be too much. They may mask. But this will have hugely detrimental long-term outcomes. And that’s without having to contend with social difficulties - such as friendship forming and building. Or navigating the horrors of a typical playground. As the parent of a child who was all but destroyed by mainstream during his primary years, I can attest to how much difference the right environment can make. Specialist schools (ones that exist to support need as opposed to make money like a business) offer so much and can genuinely enhance learning and sense of self. There is a need to acknowledge the role they play. And there is a need for more of them - to cut journey times for children and to enhance opportunity. It’s a big undertaking, much like reforming the curriculum. But investing in that ideology now will reap bigger rewards for all in the future. https://lnkd.in/eDGT3ndS #education #autism #audhd #disabilityinclusion #adhd #specialneedsparenting #asd #ehcp #curriculum #students #overwhelm #sensoryneed

Did you know that transition planning for your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability should begin at age 14 and continues until your student exits the school at age 22? Even though there is a Waiting List, limited services with state-funded programs may be available. Once on the Waiting List, clinical eligibility has already been determined, so things are in place so that when funding becomes available or you encounter a crisis event, a full array of services could be obtainable. Learn why they need to #BeCounted. https://bit.ly/4bfWERU

When we feel confident to identify, understand and meet children's developmental needs we feel confident to be truly inclusive. Join the growing number of schools from Australia to Slovakia, Iceland to Wales that have embedded a Whole School Nurture Approach to Learning. Nurture International supports a Developmentally Led, Trauma Aware, Nurture Approach. https://lnkd.in/exg57k6r

Important new research from Chance UK on the devastating impact when children are #excluded from primary school. Most of the children who join TCES schools and services have already been excluded on average three times from other provisions. In our 25 years of providing life-changing education for complex #neurodiverse children and young people aged 5 to 25 we have NEVER permanently excluded a child. We also don't fixed term exclude either. We never give up on a single pupil. #wenevergiveup #specialeducation #specialeducationalneeds #autism #SEND #specialschool https://lnkd.in/eRGCTM_h

Key findings simply that children are being set-up to fail !? Nothing new here either as, moving-up to secondary education functionally and digitally illiterate continues the "systemic failure to enable children to access a text based curriculum" and for a disproportionate number normal to end-up at risk of offending and joining the revolving-door of the youth justice system where they are also going to leave as functionally and digitally illiterate as they arrived. https://lnkd.in/gPshJwYS https://lnkd.in/gP_8XYgB #PublicHealth #DigitalLiteracy #FunctionalDigitalilliteracy https://lnkd.in/gnQdRVJS