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Tim Linehan

@timlinehan.bsky.social
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Dad of two. Inclusive schools advocate. Devout sceptic.

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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is no way to bring schools and families together and least of all to help children. Please sign up chng.it/6HvtYWsGrh
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Open Letter to Bridget Phillipson & warning parents against casual attitude’ to school'
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Are schools slow in offering flexi-school options for SEND children? @fftedudatalab.bsky.social As always @fftedudatalab.bsky.social data raises some interesting questions
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Home education is up 20% from 92k to 111k in the last 12 months according to govt data published today. More children leaving education. More exclusions. More severely absent children. We need to rethink education. explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...
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Elective home education, Autumn term 2024/25
<p>This publication provides data reported by local authorities on children of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/schools-admissions/school-starting-age">compulsory school age</a> in elective home education ...
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"We know that shame is a powerful driver for violence" Prof Gwen Adshead - on the Reith Lectures, Four Questions about Violence. Something for our education system to ponder. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“High quality first teaching and additional interventions are defined through our annual dialogue across the school contributing to our provision management approach.” A great example of how school SEND reports are harder to read than Stephen Hawking. Can anyone better that? please post!
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Well this would be quite funny if the consequences were less serious to the lives of children and their families schoolsweek.co.uk/school-send-...
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School SEND reports harder to read than Stephen Hawking book
'We ought to be able to explain SEND to parents more clearly than someone explains cosmology'
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Earlier this week we heard in a govt report how SEND delays put children at risk of severe violence. Today we learn SEND children are at risk of trafficking & modern slavery. And delays in SEND help play a critical part putting their lives at risk. tinyurl.com/2rcsdbef
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Send crisis in England and Wales leaving children more vulnerable, says report
Experts point to increased risk of criminal and sexual exploitation and call for urgent action from government
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thank you. I'll try to take a look!
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
7. It seems to me to be pretty effective way of silencing the voices of families of children with SEND. ends.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
6. So the legal cases that are, allegedly, bankrupting local authorities because parents are fighting for their children’s legal rights to an education, only make a tiny fraction of those who could have complaints about SEND education but aren't able to.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
5. And, it gets worse. It’s not just academies. Only children with EHCPs can have their cases investigated so other children with SEND can’t.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
4. The academy system contributes to "an extremely complex landscape where different people have access to different levels of redress depending on which school their child attends, or have no access to redress at all…this is neither logical nor is it fair.”
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
3. The system means that “young people, and their families, don’t get the help they need and lose vital weeks, months and years of education and development as a result. They don’t get that time back,” The LGO Amerdeep Somal says.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
2. I had no idea (my children went to a maintained school) that academies may offer little or no redress for complaints. And, it’s obvious really, but academies aren’t subject to these LGO procedures. This is neither logical nor fair, says the Ombudsman.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you want to know how broken the SEND system is, read on: complaints about dominate the local govt ombudsman intray. 90% are upheld yet don’t include complaints from academies (80% of secondaries, 50% of primaries). tinyurl.com/yc73ejtp 🧵1/7
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Children’s development ‘put back by years’ due to failure of special educational needs system
Local government ombudsman report into SEND in England offers damning assessment
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I've been saying this for years: teachers are unprepared to meet SEND needs. Only 1 in 10 primary teachers say they are well prepared to meet the SEMH needs of pupils. Support teachers. Train them. Help pupils. @teachertapp.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social tinyurl.com/39wjyfz9
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I so agree!
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
4. No wonder teachers are frazzled. No wonder leaders are burnt out. No wonder parents are angry. No wonder children are leaving. It’s the system. It’s unfit for purpose. ends
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
3. The report puts worsening behaviour down to unmet need. That’s one factor, for sure. But it’s also down to a failing system; one that pits school staff against families, one that’s undersupported, and one that’s simply out of touch with the needs of today.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
2. As I’ve said before, I’ve only ever seen one piece of research arguing children’s behaviour is improving (in Scotland, years ago), yet crime is falling. You’d expect a correlation. But laying this scepticism aside, the relationships between teachers and families appears to be worsening.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The evidence of toxicity in our ed system mounts. This report by the excellent @edsupportuk.bsky.social talks about stress throughout the teaching profession, as well as worsening behaviour from parents and children. tinyurl.com/yhxac22t 🧵1/4
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Alarming rise in challenging parent and pupil behaviour amid unsustainable levels of stress and burnout
Education Support, a leading UK charity which advocates for the mental health of teachers and education staff, has released its eighth Teacher Wellbeing Index.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In case anyone still doubts it, we're moving closer and closer towards a two-tier education system and it appears to be starting younger. Great for those who fit in, but for increasing numbers, if you don't, you're out. tinyurl.com/2pm2vb39
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Primary school pupil suspensions in England double in a decade
Mum Jo says Jacob is very caring but sensory issues led to him being excluded for disruptive behaviour.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
disturbing, when you consider that only around half of EHCPs are completed within the 20 weeks legally required time. tinyurl.com/4638shdm
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SEND delays 'making children vulnerable' to violence
Inspectorates, including Ofsted, warn delays in assessing SEND needs puts 'children at greater risk of harm'
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Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
FANTASTIC webinar with our @educationgovuk + @NHSEngland funders, #autistic developers &scientist practitioners. Our programme is expanding across England. Watch professor Peter Fonagy on why #NATPmentalhealth training is needed for residential special schools + colleges shorturl.at/sUW37
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You too!
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You too! Hope all's good with you
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just a shameful reminder that as child poverty hits record levels that schools can only be truly inclusive if we get the economics of equality right. All this while private enterprise skims its millions of social care by profiteering from the worst off. tinyurl.com/bdfvxv5k
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More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
No good clamping down on home education when @CfYoungLives estimates 75% of families home educate because children don’t get the support they need, often for SEND or mental health. tinyurl.com/bdcur7h9 (not saying HE can't be a +ve choice - just that many don't choose it)
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Clampdown on home educating children with protection plans
Councils will also have to include schools in 'multi-agency safeguarding teams'
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Why does this happen? more baked-in inequality.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'd be interested in joining. I'm a campaigner and work with a number of organisations (Square Peg, Hackney Council through its PCF, Spectrum Gaming) to support a more inclusive education system.
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Tim Linehan @timlinehan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I know these aren't new stats (DfE June 2024), but do any stats tell a story of crushed ideals and crisis more profoundly than the fact that 11.3% of teachers leave after just one year in the job and 25.9% after three?
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