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Milly Gandy retweeted
“I am compelled to issue this urgent policy response to express our profound disgust regarding the @educationgovuk new Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) promotional films featuring @missgemcollins.”
#RestoreSafeguarding
May 20
Harmless is profoundly frustrated with the @educationgovuk’s disgraceful new SEND campaign featuring Gemma Collins, which resembles a cheap soap opera rather than a serious strategy. @bphillipsonMP @scope
Read our full response here: tinyurl.com/yaa7phpf
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Milly Gandy retweeted
May 20
Labour plans for special needs pupils 'will overwhelm classrooms' | The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05…
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Milly Gandy retweeted
“At a time when there are huge critical issues dividing the country, when people are looking to politicians for leadership and unity, it would be appallingly bad optics for Westminster to spend weeks quarrelling over assisted suicide for NHS patients”
buds.org.uk/another-assisted…
ALT A blue and yellow infographic. It has the blue and yellow BuDS logo and a QR code link to the BuDS website. There is a central quote which reads: “At a time when there are huge critical issues dividing the country, when people are looking to politicians and politics for leadership and unity in the national interest, it would be appallingly bad optics for Westminster to spend weeks quarrelling over assisted suicide for NHS patients, a policy which has never appeared on any party manifesto”. Under the quote are the words “Why Another Assisted Dying Bill Isn’t Needed. BuDS Disability Service, May 2026”
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Milly Gandy retweeted
May 19
There has never been a shortage of optimism from #HS2 supporters but there has been a distinct shortage of accountability for cost increases and delays. To say ‘Turned around’ when the project is a de-scoped shadow of the original scheme is a joke.
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Chief political editor - Independent, actively spreading disinformation re eligibility of blue badge People with non visible disabilities are already becoming targets for hate crimes This vilification of disabled people & attempts to create a hierarchy of disabilities has to end
May 19
“I have ADHD – but even I think giving people like me blue badges is ridiculous” Victoria Richards independent.co.uk/voices/adh…
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Milly Gandy retweeted
The government that is stripping legal rights of SEND children in education to save money, is spending vast amounts on social media influencers in a hope of not looking like complete bastards. What the hell are they thinking?
Gemma Collins is in the building and she's got questions.
Coming soon📷
@bphillipsonMP
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May 19
RT @RosieDuffield1: This would be funny if SEND wasn't an urgent daily issue for v many desperate parents and pupils. If our councils were…
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May 19
Eurovision GB brought you #LookMumNoComputer and now @educationgovuk #LookMumNoClue in addition to #LookMum UK schools no decent buildings, no funding, no decent curriculum, no workforce … but it’s ok because ‘hidden from mum’ we’re taking away education and parents rights 👀
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No empirical evidence that autistic children inherently hold more extremist views. Extensive research from forensic & psychological bodies, shows that autistic individuals are no more likely than anyone else to embrace violent or extremist ideologies So why are Ofsted doing this?
May 18
New Ofsted guidance labels autistic children as more likely be extremists – it's grotesque .
Please join us at Parliament Square on Friday, 22 May to demand Ofsted treat autistic children and their families with the dignity they deserve .
@Ofstednews – remove the lie !
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Milly Gandy retweeted
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More evidence that Labour don’t listen;
some key language here that as a SEND parent sets my alarms bells going:-
“Chronic underperformance of these children” - no the 👶didn’t underperform, the state did- Tories underfunding education, shutting sure start, youth services..
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Milly Gandy retweeted
May 18
The deluded arrogance of the woman is just stratospheric. She has achieved precisely nothing educational since she took office, and seriously thinks she can tell other nations what to do about SEND children.
.@bphillipsonMP's message on SEND is clear:
• We can't have a strong and inclusive society without a strong and inclusive education system.
• The chronic underperformance of these children was met too often not with a shout of outrage but with a sigh of resignation. Sad but inevitable, the system had decided.
• By sending our children to school together, we'll make our country not just stronger but kinder.
That's why the Education Secretary is calling on global leaders to join an International Alliance to deliver opportunity for all children with SEND.
Find out more: gov.uk/government/news/new-i…
ALT Woman at podium speaking. Text on image reads: • We can't have a strong and inclusive society without a strong and inclusive education system. • The chronic underperformance of these children was met too often not with a shout of outrage but with a sigh of resignation. Sad but inevitable, the system had decided. • By sending our children to school together, we'll make our country not just stronger but kinder.
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In other news no councils do not hand out blue badges for ADHD. You get it for having scored for with severe mobility limitations
Not always a visible disability.
This misinformation is actually causing disabled people to be attacked for having a blue badge
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Milly Gandy retweeted
May 16
This is one of the saddest statistics you will read today.
Raising a child is hard, raising a disabled child in a hostile and unsupporting environment must take balls of steel.
Lets show them some support and love through decent legislation.
May 16
Over 40% of parent-carers nationally have contemplated suicide while caring for a disabled child. The human cost of an overburdened, under-resourced Send system is felt in lost careers, exhausted caregivers . neweconomics.org/2026/05/reb…
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May 18
RT @pwdonlinesafety: Government ‘must listen’ to new report which calls for DWP to research importance of Access to Work t.co/6tt8C…
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Milly Gandy retweeted
.@The_TUC Calls for Timms Review to Deliver “Genuine Reform” of PIP - as Disabled People Twice as Likely to be Unemployed.
Read the full story here 👇disabilityrightsuk.org/news/…
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Milly Gandy retweeted
May 13
The DWP has released figures for how many people moved from legacy benefits to Universal Credit. They suggest many have been left with less – or worse, with nothing
by @RachelCDailey_
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/202…
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Milly Gandy retweeted
May 14
"The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 introduces powers that may allow the State to override parental decisions about a child’s education..."
Legal challenge; to seek compatibility with human rights to family life and protection from discrimination 👇
#rightsprotect
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Milly Gandy retweeted
We are talking, but you are not listening!
DON'T TAKE OUR CHILDREN’S LEGAL RIGHTS AWAY!!!
#SAVEOURCHILDRENSRIGHTS @JAYNEMCCUBBINTV @THISMORNING @bphillipsonMP @IanByrneMP @DanCardenMP @KimJohnsonMP @PaulaBarkerMP @meaglemp @SendCrisis @TomWoWPR
May 12
Up early and heading to Liverpool to talk to parents, teachers and health professionals supporting children with SEND.
Yesterday, @Keir_Starmer spoke about who this government is for and I thought about the parents who have spent years battling for the support their children need, and the teachers and frontline workers who are desperate to help but are held back by a broken system.
I’m proud that this government is taking on the big challenges that matter in every community and I’m determined that the voices of those who have too often felt powerless will shape the future of the SEND system.
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Milly Gandy retweeted
Without a fight, because there will be fewer legal rights to fight for and fewer routes to challenge wrong decisions. Not quite the same thing as every child getting what they need. The alternative? - strengthen and enforce existing law and make the system work as it should.
May 13
We delivered the biggest piece of child protection legislation in a generation.
Now Labour's Education For All Bill will support children with SEND to get the support they need more quickly, close to home, without a fight.
We will enable every child to achieve and thrive.
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