Articles on SEND, inclusion and emotional safety
Practical reading for UK parents, school leaders and employers on school anxiety, attendance, SEND, inclusion and psychological safety at work. New articles most weeks.
Why does the same school behaviour incident keep happening?
The same pupil. The same corridor. The same call to pastoral. When a school behaviour incident keeps happening, it’s worth looking beyond the incident itself. What happens before and after it, and does everyone know what to do next?
The referral that comes back
It is 4.40pm on a Thursday. Priya has two things open on her desk. A referral form, and a file she has read so many times she could recite it.
She is referring the same child she referred in September.
The first referral was not ignored. It was accepted, logged, acknowledged. Something happened somewhere. And the child is back in the same room, in the same state, at the same point in the day. The only thing that has changed is the date at the top of the form.
Your School's Inclusion Strategy Has a Deadline. What Happens When It Meets Real Life?
Schools must publish their inclusion strategy by 31 December 2026. But the document is only part of the picture. When the same situation keeps returning to the same people, the attendance conversation that never quite moves forward, the transition that always needs the same adult, it is telling you something a written strategy alone cannot show. Is the support working, or are committed people making it look as though it is?
Mainstream inclusion: the emotional infrastructure beneath the SEND plan
Inclusion plans fail in the gap between what a school intends and what learners and staff can reliably expect when the day goes wrong. What has to hold.
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