With many thanks to the team at Special Needs Jungle I have had a very busy and interesting week! SNJ kindly posted information about...

Hope is such a vital, but fragile, force for good. In education we spend so much time working with individual young people and their...

Education is most beneficial for those who are most disadvantaged and therefore schools should prioritise provision for those children. ...

To parents of students who need additional support in secondary school - I know that many you find it perplexing why there are so few...

It has become a commonplace view that Ofsted judgements cannot be relied upon to be an accurate view of a school - several recent...

I have been writing recently about the way in which to choose a secondary school, particularly if your child has additional needs. If...

In my first post on this I looked at the discrepancy in the number of students with additional needs between secondary schools and the...

... where you suddenly realise that what you are doing might be worthwhile? Remember them, for they are priceless. I sent out some...

In my last post I looked at secondary schools in my local area and highlighted the wide discrepancies in the numbers of students on the...

This will be the first in a series of blogs on this topic! For a long time I have been concerned about how parents and families select...

To many professionals in schools hearing about "Finding Common Ground" they might assume that it is about finding new ways to criticise...

Over the last few years I have often encountered the misconception that schools that seek to be inclusive of individual needs tolerate...

Yesterday was one of those days where you realise that sometimes, just sometimes, what you do is worthwhile. I was approached, out of...

In a response to the government's paper on special educational needs about a year ago, the association which represents most secondary...

Why do we have school uniform? From experience as headteacher, teacher and parent I support secondary schools having a uniform - it...

It has been very noticeable that in the time that this project has been running I have had numerous conversations where parents are being...

It is interesting when starting a new project to think about how social media is best used. My background is in education - promotion...

Over the last few weeks since I started "Finding Common Ground" it has been a real privilege to talk to parents about their children and...

Many African communities have a variation of this proverb and it was wonderful to see it quoted in the IPPR report "Out of Kilter: How...

Suspensions and exclusions from schools are in the press. For those who don't spend your lives with the educational jargon, a suspension...