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lucyburkemcr.bsky.social
Yes - the report also contains the term “golden ticket” to describe getting an EHCP which, having spent my son’s life fighting for every substandard scrap of support, is a particularly cynical - and hateful - way of putting it.
March 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Nobody is denies the current SEND system is under pressure, under resourced and under invested. The idea EHCPs, or diagnosis, are a "golden ticket" is as offensive as it is ignorant though. The fight which many people have to access either shows that. #r4today

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Some critics, including the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, suggest much of this demand is confected: pushy parents seeking a “golden ticket” EHCP to gain advantages for their children, facilitated by an unthinking bureaucracy. A variant of this “culture war” view holds most children with EHCPs “don’t really” need support, but are simply “badly behaved” and requiring proper parenting and discipline. The consensus, however, is that the rising level of diagnosed need is genuine (and common to all wealthy countries). There is greater scientific understanding of autism, and a pile of evidence indicating a clear impact of pandemic lockdown isolation on levels of anxiety and mental illness in young people.
December 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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chrisetchingham.bsky.social
The article describes EHCP’s as a “golden ticket” which must be news to anyone who actually has an EHCP
March 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM