Wiltshire Council propose to close St Nicholas & Larkrise schools & hide our children away in a ‘super’ school in the middle of nowhere! We say NO!
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Great concert. So much community support for our local Special Needs schools! – at Trowbridge, England
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This is heartbreaking, concerning and very worrying to read about our most vulnerable children, and, sadly, this is happening all over the country. Something HAS to be done to help our special schools. 😢😢
Despair from special school heads: 'We could face closures' birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi…
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Massive shout out to Poppy, Nadia and Sharon at @SendCrisis and all the local co-ordinators and supporters who have organised the #SendNationalCrisis march. They are truly amazing.
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As disabled children and families march throughout the country government statistics show that things are getting worse. The percentage of EHCPs completed within the 20 week MAXIMUM time limit has decreased by 5%. Only 60% completed within the legal limit. #SendNationalCrisis
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Did you know that pupils with special educational needs/disabilities are six times more likely to be excluded from English state schools than pupils without SEND? This is why we are marching on Thursday 30th May. Please join the #SendNationalCrisis march. @SendCrisis
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Children with special educational needs/disabilities are being failed, forced out of school, left without education or without suitable education, their legal rights undermined. This is why families are marching this Thursday 30th May. @SendCrisis #SendNationalCrisis
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Tomorrow, we will march and we will let you know @DamianHinds what you are up against… We will NOT STAND for this any longer...
👉👉NO MORE Education Poverty👈👈
NO MORE .............
👉SEND Cuts
👉Narrowing curriculum
👉Lunchtime school closures
👉4 day weeks
#OurKidsMatter
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This is why disabled children and their families are marching on 30th May in the #SendNationalCrisis at more than 25 locations throughout England and Wales. @SendCrisis
Rise in special needs pupils forced to attend out-of-area schools theguardian.com/education/20… #SendNationalCrisis
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Just FOUR days to go until thousands of disabled children, their families and supporters will be demonstrating at 28 locations (Manchester just added). If you care about the future of children with #SEND please join the #SendNationalCrisis march on 30th May. @SendCrisis
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On 30th May thousands of disabled children, their families and supporters will be demonstrating at 25+ locations across the country in a SEND National Crisis March. Please contact local co-ordinators to confirm march times and locations. #SENDnationalcrisis
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This is why social inclusion for SEND children&YP is vital from the earliest years;to help create a society that is acceptant, without prejudice&inclusive!A knock in the teeth after today's Cabinet decision to CLOSE 3 Special Schools&create 1 super school in the middle of nowhere
There aren’t really any words for how horrendous this is. There’s still a section of British society that sees disabled people as less than human. theguardian.com/society/2019…
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@CarrieGrant1 today @wiltscouncil cabinet voted to close 3, yes 3 amazing special needs schools in Wiltshire in favour of 1 so called super school! The most vulnerable children in our county won’t cope with this! We DO NOT want the largest SEN school in the country!!
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Bigger isn't better when dealing with individual complex needs.
The plan to take away the existing schools is uncaring and distressing not only for the children but their parents as well.
Why won't authorities listen?!
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The last thing a child with SEND needs is to be sat on a minibus for more than an hour at the beginning and end of the day. This proposal is ill conceived and potentially harmful for some of the most vulnerable in society. If WCC want new schools they should be around the county!
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Council meeting is hearing speeches from parents who are immensely passionate & at times tearful. Two themes... 1: how every parent of a child with SEND consistently feels they need to fight to get their needs met. 2: the sheer range of needs is immense, how can they all be met?
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Parents who are angry about @wiltscouncil’s plan to replace 3 special needs schools with a larger one are outside County Hall ahead of a meeting this morning which is expected to decide their future
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With #Chippenham set to grow with around 2500 new homes, @st_nics is ideally placed to take up the additional capacilty of pupils that could reasonably be expected with such housing expansion.
#keepspecialschoolslocal #togetherwearestronger @keep_sen @CdThis @Hope4lHelen
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Having just finished my speech to cabinet, Cllr Scott claimed that spending on young people has increased. Whilst this is 'possibly' true, it hides the fact that staffing ratios have been rigourously compromised and resources have become increasingly targetted.
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@keep_sen @laura4roundway it would be a Legacy to deliver a proposal that isn’t at odd with human right Article 2
Public authorities should also consider your right to life when making decisions that might put you in danger or that affect your life expectancy.
Or discriminatory
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It's not about what @wiltscouncil want!!!! It's about what our children, and future SEND children NEED and DESERVE, and that is to be educated in the heart of their own communities!!!!
Tomorrow Cabinet decides on the future of Special Schools in N. Wiltshire. The council recommends (yet AGAIN) building one mega school in a v rural location for 400(!!) SEND CYP! It's an ethically and morally wrong proposal...this can not happen!
#inclusion
#Equality
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