I don't understand how changing the criteria for what's always been a problematic 'diagnosis' should affect teachers. Children's educational needs are their educational needs, regardless of what causes them.
Not convinced, sadly.
About this 'access to support'...?
So sorry. Hope you feel much better soon.
Was wondering where you'd got to Julie. Good to see you here.
If this is Shropshire Council’s idea of co-production, how can we guarantee that residents who volunteer have equal say – and that the same won’t happen again? 4/4
The Making it Real Board - and several of the Partnership Boards that had worked for many years with the Council - have been replaced by ‘priority groups’ including volunteers chosen by the Council, looking at issues of the Council’s choosing. 3/
The decision was announced at the start of a scheduled Board meeting - no consultation, no warning, no prior notice to two volunteer Expert by Experience co-chairs. 2/
One year ago Shropshire Council closed down the Making it Real Board, after 12 years of co-production with residents drawing on adult social care services and unpaid carers. 1/ 🧵
And people will see it like that because the diagnostic criteria for autism are not fit for purpose and not reflective of 80 years of research findings. whatisautismanyway.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/a...
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Remarkable work documenting a year of escalations, from @chrischirp.bsky.social. “a chart of actions over the last year – I’ve logged almost 200 and so have only been able to label the most significant”: christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
A must-read!
Most of the skills teachers were concerned reflect the level of development you'd expect in a 4 year-old. Don't teachers study child development any more? 2/2
Just read this report. t.co/tKCjuhyEjw What isn't obvious from the sensationalist headlines in the news media is that it's about *reception* children. Originally, reception classes were set up in order to prepare children for school. 1/1
Great to see you again Sue!
Weird, isn't it? Like not recognising people when they've had their hair cut.
Good to see you in this alternative, much pleasanter, universe!
They don't have it yet. A week is a long time in politics.
They both plan to plunder Ukrainian resources?
And will then renege on their deal with each other.
It's a production system designed for systems. Highly transferable to services. Just different content.
If you've met one neurodivergent person, you've met one neurodivergent person.
If you've met one neurotypical person, you've met one neurotypical person.
Each human being is unique.
Toyota Production System holds the clues.
I tell this story periodically, but it seems like it's time again:
General Motors ran an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, that was one of the worst in the country. Accident rates and defects were astronomical. Absenteeism was through the roof.
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Hope you have a happy birthday nonetheless!
That's an alternative for the current government. I was talking about what choices you had when voting.
Alternatives for government.
What were the alternatives? We're up against an electoral system that isn't representative and a direction of travel in all governments that isn't based on morality or fairness.
Same for researching. Twice in the past week AI has told me something that patently isn't true. And I wasn't even asking the AI's opinion.
