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Legal Action Group @legalactiongroup.bsky.social · 15d

We're delighted to partner with @publiclawproject.bsky.social & @39essexchambers.bsky.social on this training based on our book 'Making Lawful Decisions' by @stevebroach.bsky.social and @torbc.bsky.social.

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Public Law Project @publiclawproject.bsky.social · 16d

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sp1ngirl.bsky.social @sp1ngirl.bsky.social · 4h

For me it is a clash of objectives in how children are assessed and what 'grades' represent that is at the root, as you touch on. Demonstrating proficiency, 'sorting sheep from goats', readiness for higher qualifications, being 'work ready' etc. It is complex and no easy solutions.

sp1ngirl.bsky.social @sp1ngirl.bsky.social · 4h

I think the tendency is for schools to transfer all the pressure to achieve to CYP, rather than thinking about how well the 'learning environment' itself is supporting them to do well (academic and wellbeing). More reflection helpful? e.g. why do some perform well at primary but not secondary, etc.

sp1ngirl.bsky.social @sp1ngirl.bsky.social · 4h

Not always acknowledged that school itself is aversive to some, so too hard for them to reach 'academic potential' there. If CYP are aware of this gap, they blame themselves, even if 'learning environment' is aggravating. E.g. can't focus due to sensory input. Pressure here just creates misery.

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sp1ngirl.bsky.social @sp1ngirl.bsky.social · 8h

As a parent, academic outcomes are secondary to improving mental health and feeling that they actually belong at the school. The constant drumbeat of the importance of getting good exam grades in schools does not help either. The pressure it generates is enormous.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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sp1ngirl.bsky.social @sp1ngirl.bsky.social · 1d

Great news!

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Tania Tirraoro @tanialt.bsky.social · 1d

So this is happening…

Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 1d

NEW POST: Please allow us a little self-congratulation, as @tanialt.bsky.social and @renatawatts.bsky.social are nominated as two of 400 "Women of the Year", an event for "unsung heroes", now in its 70th year www.specialneedsjungle.com/r... #WomenoftheYear2025

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 1d

A trio of leading Tories have used misleading and offensive statements at their annual conference in Manchester to scapegoat disabled people who rely on support from the benefits system and whip up hostility towards them.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-trio-mi...

Tory trio mislead party conference on disability benefits as they stir up hostility towards disabled claimants

A trio of leading Tories have used misleading and offensive statements at their annual conference in Manchester to scapegoat disabled people who rely on support from the benefits system and whip up…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

NEW

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This is the crucial choice facing those both in the United Kingdom and the United States. What is to be the relationship between those with political power and the force of law?

In the United States it would seem that, at a federal level, both Congress and the Supreme Court are content to nod along with excessive use of presidential power. It is only the individual states themselves and the lower courts that are seeking to hold that executive power to account.

While in the United Kingdom there are louder political demands for the government to be free from the constraints placed by international law and supposedly activist judges. The implicit call is that ministers and officials should be able to do as they like to the rest of us without any possibility of a court ever saying otherwise.

What will happen in this contest between executive power and legal restraint cannot be predicted. The happy assumption of the Whig interpretation of history may not be well-grounded. From a liberal perspective things are not only getting worse, but could get a lot worse. The illiberals know what they are doing and they are doing it well.

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 3d

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:

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Steve Hardy @stevehardyldn.bsky.social · 3d

I like this😀 #LearningDisabilities

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 3d

Fatboy Slim mental health workshops to continue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fatboy Slim DJ mental health workshops to continue

The Brighton DJ, whose real name is Norman Cook, is working with a Sussex NHS trust and charity.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

It does just feel like there's something Jenrick is trying to say.
thecritic.co.uk/rob-...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

It wasn’t even a judge’s wig.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating marker of how far the Tory target voter has shifted from ‘middle class parents wanting their kids to go to uni’ to ‘old people who didn’t go and don’t see what anyone else should either’. (Obv there’s a solid case for apprenticeships, but not convinced that’s what this is about)

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

In 2037 it'll release a bargain-basement knock-off first-person-shooter in which the NPCs say how great Hitler was.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 5d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 3d

This is good. Yes, there is scholarship on this, and it shows that staying silent never ends well.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 4d

An important piece. 👇

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

open.substack.com

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 4d

Suffolk mum's campaign to get son access to healthcare services - another example of loss of support after moving to adult services—which here, means no access to hydrotherapy—despite doctors orders
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

Suffolk mum's campaign to get son access to healthcare services

When Harry turned 18, he no longer had access to various healthcare services, his mum says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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