Scottish affairs
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Half of all 2002/3-born Welsh children were granted SEN provision. However, against a backdrop of compounding dysfunction in Scotland and England, Wales turned the ship around.
How 🏴 grasped the nettle and fixed its special needs system: a comprehensive summary.
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24 Aug 2025
Onward don't seem to recognise that half of all Welsh children have special needs! Cut the education system some slack.
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Tim Doherty retweeted
“Loch Lomond” in Foxborough. Quite a sight. #WorldCup
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Jun 10
How did Aberdeenshire, formerly second-highest in the nation, so dramatically reduce its ASN rate? 📉
Read here 👇
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Jun 7
Aberdeenshire came perilously close to becoming Scotland's 🏴 first majority-ASN county: 49.3% in 2023.
But in 2024 they changed direction. How?
Last year I looked at how Wales 🏴 reversed her trend. Today, I look at an example closer to home.
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Jun 10
Quite annoyed this tweet did so well because it's not well articulated.
I'm not a fan of disruptive protest/marches. I've now seen video of actual thuggery. But what I saw when making the tweet wasn't worse than the Gaza protests - which were longer-lasting and more disruptive.
Jun 9
Sorry, why am I supposed to be uniquely horrified by a masked demonstration in Glasgow which is - at the moment, exclusively - peaceful?
Why am I supposed to have tolerated braying crowds of Gaza demonstrators - making Buchanan St unnavigable every weekend - but not this?
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Tim Doherty retweeted
Jun 10
This was mostly a response to this tweet - before the video of that man being attacked went viral.
I'm still annoyed at the hypocrisy of orgs like The National. I don't like disruptive public protest for any cause. But these people aren't consistent.
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Jun 9
Hundreds of people gathered in Glasgow, many of them masked men, to call for an 'end to mass immigration' following a stabbing attack in Belfast
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Jun 9
Sorry, why am I supposed to be uniquely horrified by a masked demonstration in Glasgow which is - at the moment, exclusively - peaceful?
Why am I supposed to have tolerated braying crowds of Gaza demonstrators - making Buchanan St unnavigable every weekend - but not this?
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Jun 10
This was mostly a response to this tweet - before the video of that man being attacked went viral.
I'm still annoyed at the hypocrisy of orgs like The National. I don't like disruptive public protest for any cause. But these people aren't consistent.
x.com/i/status/2064420987878…
Jun 9
Hundreds of people gathered in Glasgow, many of them masked men, to call for an 'end to mass immigration' following a stabbing attack in Belfast
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Jun 9
The disorder in Belfast is an entirely different kettle of fish.
But I don't see which this disruption (June 2026) is worse than that disruption (Oct 2023-c. 2025) - the difference is, of course, that one cause is less fashionable.
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Tim Doherty retweeted
Jun 9
🧵After writing extensively about SEND I was pleased to be asked to contribute to the CSJ's report "Change the Prescription" which was well covered in the Times over the weekend. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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Jun 9
Scottish public:
49% say Sarwar should resign before SP2031
30% say he should resign immediately
21% say he should stay until SP2031
27% don't know
2% prefer not to say
Labour voters:
42% Sarwar should lead into SP2031
42% Sarwar should resign before SP2031
What do people in Scotland make of the politicians mentioned as future Labour leadership hopefuls? New @IpsosScotland polling out today suggests they have yet to impress the Scottish public. ipsos.com/en-uk/labour-leade…
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Tim Doherty retweeted
Jun 7
Aberdeenshire came perilously close to becoming Scotland's 🏴 first majority-ASN county: 49.3% in 2023.
But in 2024 they changed direction. How?
Last year I looked at how Wales 🏴 reversed her trend. Today, I look at an example closer to home.
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Jun 7
Aberdeenshire came perilously close to becoming Scotland's 🏴 first majority-ASN county: 49.3% in 2023.
But in 2024 they changed direction. How?
Last year I looked at how Wales 🏴 reversed her trend. Today, I look at an example closer to home.
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Jun 7
But now we have three data points to consider in the three nations of Great Britain, it may be that England's and Aberdeenshire's reforms do not carry a 'Welsh flavour' at all - this may be just what special needs reform, after years of exhaustion and decay, trends towards.
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Jun 7
In any case, it is food for thought. Will the Scottish Government look more closely at the Aberdeenshire model - or will it continue its abandonment of local councils in the name of expedient localism?
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Full write-up and extra data tables here: tdscot.substack.com/p/buchan…
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