A new Child of the North report finds that the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is facing a worsening crisis that is putting the UK on the brink of national emergency.

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Parents have told us about the challenges they face in getting the right support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Read our blog to find out about how families are left struggling to get the care their children deserve. https://bit.ly/3Lnx2KN

Last week, demonstrations organised by SEND Sanctuary were held outside town halls across the country. Shoes were left as part of a protest about "failed or forgotten" children with special educational needs and disabilities. 🧵

Really terrible news from the University of Nottingham. The idea you can have a comprehensive university without language and music is absurd. Higher education serves society and you can't have a society with imagination and purpose if the people in charge decide creativity is worth nothing.

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'

Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

For any parents, carers and educators, please give this handy education article a read - all about 'Becoming school ready – transition from reception to year 1.' 📝

You can read the full article here on this topic: https://loom.ly/RjDecrM

To mark National Employability Day 2025, Rosie Gloster and Jonny Buzzeo consider the government's Get Britian Working plans, and detail the key lessons from previous efforts to improve employment rates which can be used most effectively to inform this initiative: bit.ly/3G1Lhmh

University management teams when consultancy firms give them the same advice they've given everyone else:

Historians of Labour and class on the Starmer Labour Government in Historical Perspective.
Open access roundtable discussion in Labour History Review with Peter Gurney, Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social), Laurence Black (@lawrenceblack.bsky.social) Martin Wright
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We are delighted to announce a new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left.

This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/virtual-issu...