An Abolitionist Grassroots Coalition Movement in Education focused on racial justice, abolishing exclusions & free quality inclusive edu 4 all #NoMoreExclusions
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2 Jun 2025
Our Abolitionist Alternatives to Exclusions Guide launch event is this week!
All welcome and food will be provided.
Get your tickets via this link, we hope to see you there: tickettailor.com/events/nomo…
29 May 2025
NME is launching our ‘Abolitionist Alternative to Exclusions’ guide!
Join us next week to discuss ways of building care, support and freedom into our education system.
📆 Thursday 5th June
⏰ 6-9pm
📍 Brixton
🍴Dinner is provided
Register here: tickettailor.com/events/nomo…
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ICARS United Nations Evidence Survey is now live.
This survey is for families in England whose child experienced restraint, seclusion, isolation, removal, use of force, recording failures, detriment or discrimination in school.
This final evidence will support a United Nations evidence submission concerning children’s rights, disability rights, safeguarding, discrimination, restrictive practices, recording and reporting failures, and access to remedy in England.
You do not need photographs or documents to complete the survey. Most questions can be answered by ticking boxes, with space to give more detail if you wish.
Evidence submission closing date: August 2nd 2026
Please complete and share with families in England whose experiences need to be heard.
If you experience any issues accessing the survey through Safari on a Mac, please try Google Chrome or another browser.
URL is also available in the comments
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“These accounts are a damning indictment of Westminster’s failure to act on seclusion as a disciplinary practice in England’s schools,” says Becky Gillespie who heads ICARS’ UK division. “The harm to children and families is horrifying.”
'I found my SEND son sobbing': Inside the damaging school isolation rooms inews.co.uk/news/i-found-my-…
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Jun 12
They need to scrap ZT and the no excuses regimes asap!
It is antagonising children leading to resentment building up, esp in secondary schls - it can lead to a child being restrained &/or secluded/held against their will.
We have to ask why so many children are being harmed...
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Britain’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Union, said the Government should be finding out why so many pupils are removed from mainstream classrooms when they become dysregulated. The NEU’s general secretary Daniel Kebede said there was “clear concern” from members about the “inappropriate use” of isolation rooms. Seclusion would only be reduced by investment in staff and access to specialist support, he added.
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Black and brown communities have a rich history of organising against and keeping us safe from white facists and racists in this country. Our first point of call at a time like this is looking back to the archives and getting organised! specialbranchfiles.uk/2182-2…
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🧵Today we are releasing a couple of the responses submitted to the Department for Education’s 2019 consultation, “Restraint and restrictive intervention in mainstream settings and alternative provision,” by those who opposed new guidance.
The Department has still not published the consultation outcome.
So we will publish some of the responses we have, which are also part of the report being sent to the United Nations.
These responses matter because they show some of the arguments the Department received against clearer national expectations, stronger accountability and increased protection for children.
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Open Public Meeting Sat 4th July Save the Date 3-5pm discussions, updates guest speakers from @NExclusions linking #housing & #schooling
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Save the date Sat 4th July. Public Meeting #housing updates & guest speakers @NExclusions facebook.com/share/1H9WVXv4y…
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"Isolation rooms came up repeatedly across our conversations. Young people were removed from
class and placed alone for the day with a pile of work and no help" New report on NEETs offers criticism of "rigid" discipline systems: onemillionfutures.substack.c…
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Over the coming weeks, ICARS will begin releasing selected evidence from the Department for Education’s 2019 consultation, “Restraint in mainstream settings and alternative provision.”
The consultation ran from 27 June to 17 October 2019.
This evidence is now part of the material being sent to the United Nations.
The Department asked for views on whether guidance was needed for mainstream schools, mainstream post-16 settings and alternative provision.
Years later, the consultation outcome still has not been published.
The responses matter because they show that families, advocates, professionals and organisations were already warning the Department about restraint, seclusion, isolation and other restrictive practices in schools.
Nearly seven years on, the question is simple:
What was the DfE told?
And why has the Department still not reported publicly on what was said in this consultation?
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Save the date Sat 4th July. Public Meeting #housing updates & guest speakers @NExclusions facebook.com/share/1H9WVXv4y…
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May 26
Happy Independence Day Guyana! 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966.
Guyana later became a republic on 23 February 1970.
Big up all my Guyanese friends on the timeline!
Happy Independence Day! 🇬🇾🫶🏾☀️🙏🏾
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Today at the University of Cambridge, I spoke about my legal cases where Black language practices have been criminalised through hate speech law and what this reveals about power, race, and linguistic discrimination. 🖤
Recording out next week 🥳
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There’s a persistent belief that being highly able somehow “cancels out” SEND,as if intelligence protects a child from autism,ADHD,dyslexia,sensory difficulties,anxiety,exec functioning problems or emotional vulnerability. In reality,high cognitive ability can mask needs for yrs.
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May 9
every school should have a "fix-it lab" where students learn to repair their clothes, bikes and electronics. we should grow up knowing that not everything is disposable, that care and repair are part of living well on this planet.
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Did you know over 200,000 Congolese children are deprived of an education and forced into child labour to find, wash and transport minerals? Some die in Mine collapses and lose one or both parents in the mines and/or conflict?
In conversation with journalist @akilimalichoma_ n Kinshasai who gives a troubling and heartbreaking account of how children in congo are exploited.
🎙️ Full episode out NOW on YouTube at Dr Shola Speaks youtube.com/@drsholaspeaks
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May 10
British army vet Hetticia & ex paint maker Vanderbilt have been fighting for half a decade for Windrush compensation. My 4-part series tells their harrowing story. Thank you to the Community Reporter subscribers for supporting. Subscribe for Part 1 tonight.thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p…
The Windrush scandal stripped mainly Black Brits of their citizenship. It was a gross injustice & a forewarning of the potential future for minorities in the UK. Real people like Tricia & Vaun suffered immensely as a result of racist immigration laws. They deserve justice.
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I would like for Tom Bennett and behaviourist campaigners to speak with the parents of these children, the ones that were pushed out with their methods and have been left behind instagram.com/reel/DXMMOvQiM…
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