The SEND reforms sound technical. But there’s a huge difference between a legal right to a plan and a legal right to the support inside it. I wrote about why that matters for Special Needs Jungle.

Uta Frith said masking isn’t real, late diagnoses were probably wrong, and non-speaking autistic people who write may be lying. She admitted she had no proof. None of it was challenged. I wrote the response she didn’t get: www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

Kathleen Stock's piece on PDA didn't intend to land alongside a report on dead children. But arguments do political work whether or not that work is intended. Her son turned out fine. The children in the MWM investigation did not. www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

On the morning the Schools White Paper dropped, Measure What Matters published findings on 25 neurodivergent children who died after documented SEND failures. The same morning, the Government proposed removing the legal rights that should have protected them. www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

Three arguments about what the White Paper gets wrong - on enforceability, shifting responsibility onto schools without funding to match, and on mainstream environments that were never built for some children’s nervous systems. www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

Canary SEND on the Schools White Paper (5/6)

Canary SEND on the Schools White Paper (4/6)

Canary SEND on the Schools White Paper (3/6)

Canary SEND on the Schools White Paper (2/6)

The Schools White Paper was published yesterday. This is a first read- in what it actually proposed, what the funding amounts to when you do the maths, and where the gap is between what the paper says and what families in this system actually need (1/6)

There is an increasing (and necessary) shift away from compliance-driven narratives and toward nervous system safety, relational care and identity. Frameworks that centre lived experience rather than behaviour control are long overdue!

Read @canarysend.bsky.social who did a great job recently on breaking down attendance say, burnout and why the idea of attendance for disabled and neurodivergent kids is problematic. We need system change. www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

Thanks so much for sharing @autisticrealms.bsky.social 💛 Your work on burnout and monotropism has been incredibly influential in my own practice, so it really means a lot. Thank you also for amplifying it, I hope it reaches those who will most benefit 💛