It’s the end of an era in Suffolk P&TS! @SuffolkPTS 🥺🥺🥺

Fascinating opening keynote speech on reintegration from ward to school - thank you @SaraEdPsy

Thank you @SaraEdPsy for an inspiring talk this morning representing the voice of children reintegrating back to school from a tier 4 unit at @NAHEUK Units United conference

You can read the letter in full here and share widely in your communities to demand a SEND revolution 🙌🏼 #TwitterEPs shorturl.at/5g93E

A drastically different approach is needed to tackle SEND crisis. Today, with 16 organisations we deliver this very important message to @bphillipsonMP @educationgovuk to demand change. #SENDreform #SENDrevolution @DECPOfficial

Are you an Assistant EP? Or are you a qualified EP who works with Assistant EPs / oversees their work? Research participants needed for my thesis study exploring the role and impact of Assistant EPs! Please see flyer below and link. tinyurl.com/3a52rz39 #twittereps

A lovely day celebrating yesterday alongside some of my wonderful @SuffolkPTS EP colleagues #ueagrad @UeaEDU

A/L for my birthday starts after tomorrow, marking the end of the Summer Term of my NQEP year! I survived! This term has been my absolute favourite, the highlight being 6 WOWW (Working on What Works) sessions in an awesome Year 5 class, in between those EHCNAs! 🥹💖 #twittereps

Today I talked to a young person who stopped going to school in Year 7. He told me, when we looked around the school they said that detentions were only for when you did something really wrong and most people didn’t get them. Then, when I got there, I found out that in nearly every lesson someone got a detention. The teachers were always giving us detentions and I was scared. He said, they really pack things into your head. You get into the class and there’s a ‘First do this’ on the board and you have to sit down and do it immediately. Then the teacher gives you more to do and it doesn’t matter if you can’t do it all, it just keeps moving on. You can’t ask your friend how they are doing it because you can’t talk. You’re always worrying about what happens next and whether you might get a detention. He said, I couldn’t do it. It made my head hurt and by lunchtime I couldn’t go on. I know I was learning a lot but I couldn’t keep going. He’s out of school now and at an alternative setting. He said, I can stay all day there, because they don’t pressure us. I couldn’t believe how relaxed they were when I started. They don’t give us detentions and I didn’t think that would really happen. I’m learning things. There’s no way for this to be fed back to the system. No one asks those of us who work in mental health what the side effects are of our local school. No one measures mental health as a key outcome of educational and behavioural policy. No one looks at children’s behaviour and attendance as feedback on the system. He’s not an isolated case. I hear stories like his all the time. Kids who cannot cope with high pressure and high control environments and who start not attending school as a result. Kids who tell me that they are constantly fearful of getting it wrong. You won’t solve that by fining or threatening their parents. We have to ask what is happening in our schools, and whether many of them are becoming environments in which children cannot thrive. Exam results aren’t enough. We have to ask about the side effects of the system.

So my friend @Toby_Wells is kind of a big deal now! 💚 well done buddy!!

Honest responses requested…If you do an in-person EHCNA, how many days does it take you on average, including travel, organisation, formulating, etc.? #TwitterEPs 🥫🪱🪱

Rafah is one of the most densely populated places on earth, teeming with children and families, some already displaced many times by war in Gaza. Of the 1.3 million people seeking shelter, 600,000 are children. They have nowhere safe to go. They must be protected.

What an article! 😍 I’m in! Who else is joining the revolution?! 🤘🏼#twittereps

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A rare non EP related post but took my lil’ nephew to his first ever show tonight (punk rock, ofc), starting him young 😆🤘🏼

A hope filled day of dreaming about the future with @IncSols and the wonderful @SuffolkPTS Inclusion Facilitators #twitterEPs

Can you help? @IssyCone is having trouble recruiting for her doctoral thesis and time is running out. She is looking for mental health leads from secondary schools to take part in a 30–60-minute online interview, can be within or outside school hours. Thank you :) Please retweet.

Very happy to have shared our work on #twitterEPs work for Children in Care at the #DECPconference2024 Some thought-proving reflections e.g. how much of a child’s trauma narrative can / should we include in the reports we write?

So grateful to have had the opportunity to share the stories of the incredible YP who took part in my study 🥰 @SuffolkPTS Thank you to all of the brilliant EPs/TEPs I met at the #decpconference2024 for being so supportive on my first conference rodeo 😅