Listening to @lucaonions.bsky.social at the @eps4change.bsky.social community learning day, sitting with all the emotions that come with hearing the perspectives of neurodivergent trans children, and hearing my own child's voice in their voices.

Please share! Come join! Accessible to all! Exciting and engaging speakers soon to be announced! Get your ticket today! www.eventbrite.com/e/epmc-commu...

When you say that everyone's rights and freedoms are interconnected, you often get blank or puzzled responses. To highlight this point, hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah is being denied an ambulance at Bronzefield, the same prison that denied care for Aisha Cleary during labour.

Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Breaking: The schools white paper will be delayed until 'early in the new year', government has announced today, as ministers take more time to draw up controversial SEND reforms schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-whit...

Blood on their hands; EVERY "gender-critical" transphobe - yes including the very rich ones, the bigoted "journalists" who abuse their power, the unacademic academics and the "comedians" who make transphobic "jokes" - are respnsible for this poor cis women's death. Transphobia *harms* cis women.

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

"She could have had the lucrative career of performative activism she was being lined up for. But by shunning this path, she shows up so many liberals for the frauds they are. She also puts a spotlight on all the big climate scientists who’ve never once said genocide is bad for the environment."

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Imagine being a non-White person in the UK. Now imagine being constantly asked for your Digital ID, just because "We are checking." It is going to be like that, it ALWAYS is.

So errrr....give us a follow...?! @educatedguesspod.bsky.social #Psychology #edpsychs

Recently in consultation meetings I've met children who have been racially abused by other children. This has retraumatised their parents and is also retraumatising for me. Racism is a safeguarding issue as outlined in KCSIE. It should be treated as such.

Still taking in the @edpsy.bsky.social festival and the honour of interviewing Bernard Coard with Sathya. It felt like an energising way to end a day of listening to inspiring speakers and planning for a better future for children, families, and ourselves.

💥Have you seen this line up....!? Programme and tickets here: festival.edpsy.org.uk #epfest2025 #edpsychs

Disappointed in the new occupants at the DfE quite generally tbh and I'm not afraid to say it. Too much flattery goes on in the sector where people want to have influence and I don't think it's healthy for education. #EduSky

Just been reading the DfE's new writing framework and it seems to push even more for formalising the Reception year. Every time I speak to teachers on the ground they stress the need for active, playful approaches to learning in the early years and this is not that. #EduSky

Are any EPs involved in these conversations? This has huge implications for our profession.

Catching up with Skepta's Glastonbury set whilst writing reports. Feeling the energy from my sofa 😂

Parenting a child with SEND as a psychologist means administering and scoring questionnaires by day, and answering them yourself in your downtime. It's very draining but has also made me think about how and why I use them in my practice.

🌟💥🎪 Announcing our Festival headliners We're...proper...excited! Keri Opai, Dr Cora Sargeant and Bernard Coard. Join us on 19th September for inspiration, challenge and hope. More about our headliners: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/an... #epfest2025 #edpsychs

A surprisingly high number of EPs pay little attention to accessibility when using social media. As advisors to settings on reasonable adjustments like assistive technology, we should be striving to educate ourselves on this.

Your picture might say a thousand words, but your alt text doesn’t have to to include blind and partially sighted people 🤯 It's really easy, simply click ‘Alt’ on the image and type your description before hitting ‘post’.

Seeing discourse about Jamie Oliver backing a national rollout of a dyslexia screener which Matt Hancock has undoubtedly invested in, and wondering why the Year 1 phonics check is not being used to identify struggling readers as intended?

Just had a governor meeting where a teacher attended to present data on the Y4 multiplication check dressed as a Teletubby. He'd promised this to his class as an incentive for doing well in the check. There aren't enough words for how important great teachers are!

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

People who abstained from voting to decriminalise abortion: -Wes Streeting (health secretary) -Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister) -Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)

📢🎪 Announcing our festival theme! 'Lasting change through collective action' Our festival celebrates the power of people coming together. Community psychology teaches us that real change begins when communities lift each other up. Get your ticket now: festival.edpsy.org.uk #edpsychs

What if the DSM 5 got autism wrong? Interesting perspective from Mottron via Larivierre, very neuroaffirmative. Spotted this on @raising_neurodivergence on instagram. larivierre.substack.com/p/what-if-th...

New #SEND stats 2025 out: Over 1.7m with SEND ⬆️ by 5.6% 5.3% of pupils with EHCPs ⬆️ by 0.5% 14.2% of pupils on SEN Support ⬆️ by 0.6% Autism most common need for EHCP pupils. SLCN most common need for SEN support pupils. Our analysis is on Monday. explore-education-statistics...

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

There's something so universal about toddlers (especially boys) loving a big branch or a stick that there must be some science behind it!

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The Family Fund Cost of Caring report was published a couple of days ago. It is relevant to any SEND professional, making it clear why we must advocate for an adequately funded system of income support. www.familyfund.org.uk/impact/resea...

The misconduct hearing for officers responsible for the strip search of Child Q is taking place. 5 years after the incident. When she said she was on her period, she was told “we are all women here”. Aged 15. In school.

Today marks 5 years since the murder of George Floyd. It felt like a good opportunity to share Bernard Coard's new book on teaching in Educationally Subnormal schools. A reminder that the fight against unjust race and class systems is decades, if not centuries in the making. amzn.eu/d/9BPdFqN

Benjamin Netanyahu’s office: "On the recommendation of the IDF and based on the operational need to enable the expansion of the military operation to defeat Hamas, Israel will allow a basic quantity of food to be brought in for the population..." What's a basic quantity for a starved population?

Why do people constantly misinterpret what resilience is? "Asked what she meant by “grit” on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Phillipson said: “It’s about having the grit, the resilience, the ability to cope with life’s ups and downs, about the challenges that are thrown at them" shorturl.at/L63fn

🌟Our latest '5 things you might have missed' This edition includes supporting secondary readers, LGBTQ+ youth homelessness, the 'EP tech talks' newsletter', and more! Read here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/5-... #edpsychs @digitalep.app @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social

📣 We’re excited to announce our next webinar on Autism, masking and intersectionality with @drtiffanynelson.bsky.social 📣 Tickets available now on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-educat...

Morning! Yesterday, a man in a van blew a kiss at me, then followed me to talk to me. I was walking from the gym to meet my son at the train station (wearing leggings & a hoodie- not that it matters). At 4pm in the town centre. I'm confused as I thought the court ruling thingy would make me safe?

Extremely devastating news for transgender people in the United Kingdom. So much of what we face in the United States has shared roots in that country, and this Supreme Court decision there will make people far less free. Crackdowns on trans people are international, not limited to borders.

✋New '5 things you might have missed' From a new paper about UK EP service consultation policies, to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about UK poverty in 2025. Read here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/5-... #edpsychs @bpsofficial.bsky.social @drcathyatkinson.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Can we normalise not putting an image of Black and brown people on the publicity materials for CPD events that are run by white psychologists and therapists? At the very least, it's misleading, but it could be a manipulative way of trying to bring credibility to the topic.

We’re giving away one free copy of Sue Gerhardt’s new book. Re-tweet the post below to be in with a chance. Winner will be chosen at random on April 8th. Good luck!

Got this on my favourite t-shirt; a trans ally long before being a proud and adoring trans mama 💙💖🤍💖💙 Now, more than ever, it's vital we listen to, learn from, understand & love our trans CYP 💕 #TransDayofVisibility

"Getting Disabled People into work."

These personal stories highlight how truly heinous these cuts are. Coming from a Labour government, they are all the more galling. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Last night, I was asked by my child to send a text message to their best friend's mum, explaining that they are trans. The reply I received brought me to tears. Love and compassion is what matters to trans kids and their families. Trust that we know what is best for our kids.

What were psychologists doing during the ESN scandal? The same thing we are doing now, whilst disability benefits are cut by our more democratic party, whilst children struggle to attend zero tolerance schools, whilst there is a 2 child benefit cap. Psychology is, was, and will always be political

Love this thread and the reflections in the comments. Thank you for sharing your living experience, Sadžida