London Governance

30/07/2025

Could this be you?

The BBC are making a documentary about the EHCP system – and they want to hear from you.

They’re currently filming with families across the UK and are looking to speak with one more family to help tell a vital part of the story.

📣 They want to hear from families of teenagers with an EHCP who are still struggling at school, despite having a plan in place.

Maybe your child’s EHCP isn’t being followed.
Maybe the promised support just isn’t there.
Maybe it’s had a real impact on their mental health, school attendance, or safety.

The BBC wants to explore what happens when the EHCP system doesn’t deliver – and how that affects young people and families in practice.

If this sounds like your experience and you’d be willing to share your story, please get in touch with:
📧 [email protected]

Your voice could help raise awareness of a system that needs to change.

21/05/2025

Interesting 🧐

Direction forcing schools to follow rules on evidence bundles follows deluge of 'irrelevant' information

01/05/2025

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28/04/2025

📣 Calling all Heads 🧑‍🏫 & Chairs 🪑
Did you know that we can take the stress away of your parent complaints and staff grievances? We handle these end to end so you do not have to! ✏️

08/04/2025

Love this x

A secondary school will adopt its P.E. kit as its main uniform from the start of the summer term to "facilitate a more active curriculum".

The new uniform at William Brookes School in Much Wenlock will be adopted from the week commencing April 28.

👉 https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2025/04/08/why-much-wenlock-secondary-school-is-adopting-pe-kit-as-main-uniform-after-easter/

25/03/2025

It's a sad fact that the harder your child finds school, the more time and space it takes up. There’s the hours in the morning trying to coax them, and the long afternoons dealing with the aftermath. There’s the worrying late at night, when you wake up sweating about their future and wondering whether it’s all your fault. The weekends worrying about the homework and the impending sense of dread on Sunday afternoons as a whole week lies ahead. ‘Just fifteen minutes’ reading which turn into an entire day of waiting for the right moment to make the suggestion.

And then there’s the effort you put into hiding what’s going on from the rest of the world, because you’re afraid of what they are going to say. The ‘helpful suggestions’ like ‘Have you tried taking away her iPad?’ or ‘What about a sticker chart?’. The moments when they say ‘Oh, yes sometimes Lizzie doesn’t really feel like school but we just say it’s the law’ and you realise they don’t have a clue.

When your child isn’t fine at school, you can feel so isolated and alone. It can feel like you are the only ones going through this, and that’s a lonely place to be.

That’s what Eliza Fricker () and I are talking about in our next joint webinar. Now What? Not Fine At School. It’s about what it’s like to be a parent when school isn’t going well for your child. The blame, the guilt, the emotional hangovers and the endless hope that perhaps this day will be a better one. It’s based on Eliza’s personal experience of having a child who wasn’t fine in school for the whole of primary school (and then didn’t attend for secondary school) and my experience as a professional and former ‘school refuser’ myself.

Please share if you know parents who are going through this.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/now-what-not-fine-in-school-with-dr-naomi-fisher-and-eliza-fricker-tickets-1264018757129?aff=fb3

19/03/2025

Online misogyny is a growing problem, and it goes far beyond the rhetoric of Andrew Tate. Safeguarding lead Thomas Michael explores three key terms school staff should understand

19/03/2025

Who is or has watched ?
Thought provoking, incredible acting and one shot videography:

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81756069?s=i&trkid=252480315&vlang=en
Netflix
For those in the education sector this is so on topic 🏫

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

17/03/2025

This. There are so many ‘consultants’ out there cutting corners, taking the moral high ground. 

We deal in children’s lives.

15/03/2025

An interesting read…

Despite much rhetoric about flexible working, there is not enough flexibility for teachers in schools - and that’s down to a number of core challenges, argues Mark Roberts, who details how to fix them

10/03/2025

Schools worked hard to introduce social distancing, mask wearing and class bubbles during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now scientific research shows it was worth it

12/02/2025

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