IPSEA demands moratorium on Children and families Bill

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Will anyone else be brave enough to stand with them?

See here

That's because schools and parents united are a pretty lethal combination. Local Authorities spend huge amounts on propaganda to schools and policies to pitch schools against parents and vice versa.

I think this is all about the right wing/left wing battle about LA retaining power against a climate of privatisation. Our children are the excuse, not the reason.

I think it is pretty poor that Special Needs Jungle ask for support in helping THEM to support an individual parent asking for the bill to be stopped instead of coming outright and saying it themselves.

It's as IE said. The charities want the parents to do the work, to do that battles, to do the policing. They too want the status quo and the status to hob nob with the government and feel all important as a government selected advocate for vulnerable children they can't possibly in that position represent.

It is all so depressing. I agree, key stakeholders are missing out and not just kids, but their schools too.

Pitting parent against school works so well for LAs. It is just such a shame that none of the mainstream education commentators or professional political rent-a-gobs has switched on to this! But Twitter is alive with so many really important causes at the moment - including the kicking the disabled and poor are getting with the so called 'austerity' agenda - it is hard to get anyone to focus on this.

But in this climate, what did the charities think was going to happen? How did they think this rhetoric was going to translate into a real culture change in SEN practice?

There has been good analysis of what was 'wrong' in the first place (Lamb, Bercow etc.). But none of the evidence from those reports has any link to the proposed changes.

The very fact that the changes are coming in before the pathfinders have fed back their evidence shows how little the Government care for what is found. Local Authorities are spending all of their energy protecting their empires and fighting the cuts to their budgets or the outsourcing of their services.

Charities have taken and spent money on the reform process making it difficult for them to do a U-turn with any credibility. Law firms are jumping up and down in delight on both the parent and LA sides and they are busy setting up pretend independent mediation companies.

Schools are being told they have to fund everything out of their own shrinking budget with the only way out being exclusion and a send off to the local profit-making Independent dumping ground at the expense of the tax payer.

Parents are left with a choice of shut up and put up, privately fund or home educate. They are left with no advocates at all.

That is as near perfect a summary of what is happening as I can imagine. It is what I have been struggling to say in a much more long winded way.

I agree entirely. Do you tweet? I think you should link your post!

You should post that on the other thread as the link to the chat thread has been tweeted by the charities

I'm Starlight

I guess they'll stop tweeting the link now.

I thought it was you Star! Fab post.