Support for SEND

20/12/2025

18/12/2025

Are your child's mental health related absences being coded as 'unauthorised', like - at one point - my child's were?

Here's a summary of what statutory guidance outlines regards illness and absence, if your child/family is being unfairly penalised.

17/12/2025

'A Call to Educators'! 'You can speak freely and anonymously' regards whether 'LA decisions and administration either translate into support for children or obstruct it'!

NEW POST: How teachers are providing the missing evidence illustrating systemic SEND maladministration by councils. Accountability investigators, Measure What Matters, are urging schools and educators to share their experiences anonymously: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/teachers-add-missing-evidence-council-send-maladministration-give-yours/

17/12/2025

Another very kind recommendation! 💜

16/12/2025

'It's okay not to be okay'... just don't let it affect your attendance!

It's so ironic that schools hand out little pocket cards, like this, yet so many parents and carers report their child's mental health related absences are marked down as 'unauthorised'!

This happened to us and in the coming days, I will share legislation and guidance that can be used to challenge the unauthorised absence code.

14/12/2025

How I felt today, before delivering information that would not be well received, to my child!

Joking aside - and, of course, I would never just throw the gr***de and run. I always try to carefully/appropriately explain why something has happened, or is going to happen - genuinely, when we know that something is going to upset or anger our child, this is how many parents and carers of autistic children feel.

Yes, nobody likes to upset their child - neurotypical or neurodivergent; however, due to difference in thinking, sensing and processing the world, many neurodivegent children and young people experience more intense reactions and emotions to certain information, than their neurotypical peers and this can have quite an impact on parent carer mental health and well-being, also.

So what can we do with this information?

Well as parents and carers support their neurodivergent child, others can support parents and carers: by providing a listening ear; reserving judgment and being willing to learn about autism/neurodivegence, in general.

14/12/2025

This certainly resonates with me, as a parent to autistic children.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have delved deep into the emotional and cognitive dynamics of parents raising children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This research, led by esteemed

13/12/2025

Summary: Case law dictates, " The legal duty is clear cut: they [LAs] must comply with the timescales, unless one of the narrow exceptions set out in the Regulations applies." - Dr Alice Irving, Public Law Barrister.

What’s the law when a council fails to meet EHCP duties through resource issues, but is “trying its best”? Dr Alice Irving explains

12/12/2025

Yay! Apparently, I have been good this year!

12/12/2025

Thankful to the BBC, this week, for publishing this news report, about how Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy is harmful to some pupils.

A review of the academy, 'authored by Sir Alan Wood, said this success had been achieved "at too high a cost for some pupil's".'

The report 'found that shouting, public humiliation and a lack of support for pupils with special needs took place.'

Disgusting draconian measures, inducing fear to force compliance!

Review finds Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy's policies are "harmful" to some vulnerable pupils.