Apologies for plagiarising Pastor Martin Niemöller‘s confessional poem First They Came but it felt appropriate today. You see our current Labour government have been attacking nearly every category of citizen in the UK in a desperate attempt to reduce our massive and ever-growing debts as a country. I’ll not delve into the politics of...
Ofsted deeply critical of Kent SEND provision
In 2019 Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission conducted a joint inspection of Kent to judge how effective to local authority was at implementing disability and special educational needs reforms. The outcome of that inspection can be found here and was not at all complementary. In September this year they carried out a review...
Annual reviews, EHCPs and the opacity of local authority – part 2
In Annual reviews, EHCPs and the opacity of local authority – part 1 I described the frustration of the annual review process, the fact that the local authority don’t attend these meetings and the difficulty of finding someone to speak to when legislative deadlines come and go without consequence. If you’ve not read part...
Annual reviews, EHCPs and the opacity of local authority – part 1
It’s been a while since my last post and for reasons that will become apparent this is because a lot has been going on and a lot that I didn’t want to share until I had some answers. I’ve spoken before about how every week seems to be a new battle to get what...
Special Needs Schools – Part 1
“All children should attend a school that is right for them”. It’s not something I considered as a child until my dad made the statement when we were trying to find the right secondary school for me. Growing up on a council estate in the 1980s there was only ever one choice of primary...