ARFID: Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is much more than just "fussy eating" Does your family have experience of ARFID? How have you tackled it? www.specialneedsjungle.com/arfid-avoida...
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@spcialndsjungle.bsky.social@spcialndsjungle.bsky.social"Deeply concerned" - parent and carer group sounds alarm over Isle of Wight’s SEND reform plan. Have you checked your LA’s plan? Let us know your thoughts. Matt is writing about them soon. www.countypress.co.uk/news/2662369...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialJust FIVE days left. Please will you help to save disabled children’s rights in England by signing and sharing the petition?
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialNow's the time to challenge Timms Review: write to your MP - DPAC - dpac.uk.net/2026/10/nows...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialOn SNJ Today: Our joint Save Our Children's Rights campaign has had an open letter to Andy Burnham and Lucy Powell printed in The Guardian. We know people with lived experience don't want to lose SEND rights. We need the Government to listen www.specialneedsjungle.com/guardian-pri...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialNHS risking ‘system failures’ as need for ADHD and autism care soars, inquiry finds. It says the NHS should combine mental health and neurodevelopmental services, moving to a “needs-led” system. Overdiagnosis was not found to be occurring at scale
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@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialNEW POST: As @theguardian.com prints our joint Save Our Children's Rights campaign's open letter, it's clear people with lived experience don't want to lose #SEND rights. Why won't the Government listen? www.specialneedsjungle.com/guardian-pri...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialOctober is POTS Awareness month. Here's something we wrote earlier. Living with PoTS: Understanding Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia syndrome and how schools can help www.specialneedsjungle.com/living-pots-...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialWho knew? Think tank @instituteforgovernment.org.uk says Labour SEND proposals risk "unravelling" as parents rush to secure EHCPs before any changes. An IoG report says the plans may be too optimistic & too fast, risking basing plans on undeliverable assumptions www.theguardian.com/education/20...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialOnly SIX days left. The petition to protect SEND legal rights is 2nd out of 2,210 government petitions. Please help to save disabled children’s rights in England by signing and sharing.
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.social“SEND reform: A chance to rethink inclusion in schools” These are still just PROPOSALS—and proposals may change after a consultation response is finally published. But schools and LAs are acting like they’re it’s already in place. This is entirely wrong. www.headteacher-update.com/content/best...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialOn SNJ Today: A new discussion paper is asking for feedback on ideas for helping education, health and social care staff see that understanding a diagnosis is not always the same as an individual's needs: www.specialneedsjungle.com/pathways-dia...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialChildren with SEND ‘vulnerable to exploitation’, Police and Crime Commissioners warn - careappointments.com/care-news/en...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialThe petition to protect the legal rights of children with special educational needs is over 113,000. There’s just one week until it closes. Will you help by signing and sharing? Children can sign too.
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialMums battle for SEND school places “they don't answer your phone calls anymore, they don't answer your emails anymore". This is far from unusual and always unacceptable. Council behaviour is the SEND reform that’s actually needed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialJust ONE WEEK to go until the petition to protect SEND legal rights closes. If you care about disabled children’s rights please sign and share. Let’s get as many signatures as we possibly can. Children can sign too.
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialNEW POST: How do you ensure pathways to education, health, and social care support, meet both diagnosis and needs? An invitation to offer views on a new discussion paper www.specialneedsjungle.com/pathways-dia...
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialSEND funding plan risks ‘penalising’ inclusive schools “Raising the threshold without providing genuinely additional & clearly identifiable funding risks increasing schools’ responsibilities without… the capacity or resources to meet them” 🤔🫣
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@spcialndsjungle.bsky.socialThe petition to save SEND legal rights is 3rd out of 2,192 parliamentary petitions, with over 112,000 signatures. There are just 8 days to go. Will you help save disabled children’s rights by signing and sharing. Children can sign too. #SEND #Disability
@spcialndsjungle.bsky.social“More than 9 in 10 local SEND reform plans approved by DfE” —or in other words, ‘Tell us what we want to hear and we’ll give you lots of money’ They’ve learned nothing from the 2014 reform’s failed implementation. Nothing.
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