Families across the country have shared 1253 accounts exposing unlawful, harmful, or unethical behaviour by 134 local authorities.
Every major political party is represented among them — this is not about party politics, but about a system that is broken. Local accountability is being bypassed, and in places like Surrey, the truth has been buried. For over a year, the council concealed that it had the highest tribunal complaint rate in the country.
While councils face huge financial pressures around SEND, too often that pressure has translated into a culture of lying and treating children’s suffering as just another “problem to manage.” The result is a system that has become dishonest and brutalised.
If we reduce their SEND rights and throw our children to local authorities we cannot trust, we throw away their lives.
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Residents in Charlwood were without internet all day on Monday, made worse by the poor mobile signal in the area.
The Environment Agency (EA) have told me that the Court has granted them a Restriction Order prohibiting access to the site and the importation of any more waste.
I attended the premiere of Unauthorised Absence Film.
The failing in the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill is that there is no robust, objective test to prevent re-investigation without new and compelling evidence.
Surrey County Council’s SEND reform plan sets Surrey up to continue to fail thousands of SEND children in their legal and basic human right to an education.
I wrote to the government earlier this year asking them to review this.
