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New Foster Carers Toolkit | FosterWiki FosterWiki's Foster Carers Toolkit a Step by Step guide on becoming a foster carer, a clear and simple guide to all the basic information you need.

Thinking about becoming a foster carer, know someone who is, or already exploring the process?

I wanted to share this fantastic resource — the FosterWiki Foster Carers Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide, created by Sarah Anderson, founder of FosterWiki.
fosterwiki.com/new-foster-c...
#fostercare

How Martyn’s Law will affect schools - and why leaders should act now Schools will already fulfil many of the requirements of new anti-terrorism legislation for public premises but there are still important new duties to consider, says Professor Michael Green

How will Martyn’s Law affect schools? @michaelsgreen.bsky.social outlines the key requirements – and explains why it’s worth school leadership taking action early

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NEW POST: The Government must acknowledge and act on the devastating “double disadvantage” impact of poverty and SEND policies says a new report from @suttontrust.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/g...

Young boy who has Down's syndrome is smiling whilst he plays on a piano.

The charity 'Family Fund' has grants available to support families in Wales, raising a disabled or seriously ill child aged under 18, and who are living on a low income.

This grant programme will only be open until Monday 3 November 2025.

Click here for more details 👉 https://loom.ly/cuxnh3g

Isolation, dependence, and total control—this is how coercive control erodes your identity piece by piece.
#domesticabuseawareness #emotionalabuse

Max Murray is doing a phenomenal job of portraying Joel in #Eastenders ... The guy is 18 years old, remember that and he's making this character so universally hated with the storyline.

What a great job from someone so young, he's going to get some really good roles as he matures

TfL users urged to 'act like a friend' to harassment victims TfL is encouraging passengers to be active bystanders and to deter perpetrators of crime.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Transport users in London are being urged to step in if they see fellow passengers falling victim to hate crimes or harassment.
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A child can only be legally excluded from school for disciplinary reasons. A head teacher must formally tell parents that their child will be excluded by giving them details in writing. Any other exclusions are illegal, and we want them to stop.

AAW25: Why advocacy | NDTi Gail Petty explores why advocacy is a vital part of our health and social care landscape for Advocacy Awareness Week 2025.

@gail-ndti.bsky.social explores why advocacy is a vital part of our health and social care landscape for #AdvocacyAwarenessWeek 2025.
#AAW25 #AdvocacyWorks #SelfAdvocacyWorks
www.ndti.org.uk/resource/aaw...

Advocates help your voice be heard Advocacy helps you to: Speak up, know your rights, make decisions, ask for what you want #AdvocacyWorks #SelfAdvocacyWorks #AdvocacyAwarenessWeek Photo of an advocate at a table pointing to something on a piece of paper. Another person is looking closely and listening.

Advocacy = speaking up, knowing your rights, making decisions, and asking for what you want.
Advocates help your voice be heard. This week let’s raise awareness and celebrate the power of advocacy!

#AAW25 #AdvocacyWorks #SelfAdvocacyWorks

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Mockingbird: The Family Model for Young People Leaving Care The Mockingbird Family Model (MFM) is delivered in the UK. The model aims to change the structure of fostering services, by creating a ‘hub and spoke’ model of foster carers, where a hub foster carer ...

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An independent study from King’s College London and the Centre for Homelessness Impact has found that Mockingbird isn’t reducing homelessness for care leavers, and may even be increasing it.👇

Children harmed by decision to redeploy health visitors, Covid inquiry hears Some children paid "the highest price" of death because of redeployments, says health visiting charity head.

Children harmed by decision to redeploy health visitors, Covid inquiry hears - True—my grandson was born in August 2020. they had one virtual health visitor chat for quite young, neurodivergent first time parents.

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Bridget Phillipson, the image may look playful, but the message is serious.

You’re being ill-advised on early learning.

Play isn’t soft. It is learning. Children show writing, maths & thinking skills through play.

So don’t take play away. Come & observe it.

#PlayMatters

Play Talk Radio: Play Love & Nurture with Tamsin Grimmer

🎙️ New on #PlayTalkRadio!
We’re joined by the brilliant Tamsin Grimmer to explore Play, Love & Nurture ❤️

A powerful conversation on why relationships + play are at the heart of early childhood.

👉 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/285X...
#PlayMatters #EarlyYears #EYFS

Welcome to Barriers to Education Practical resources and the WARMTH framework to help young people overcome barriers to school and thrive academically and emotionally.

While we’re waiting for RISE to help improve things, have you seen Barriers to Education’s new resources? barrierstoeducation.co.uk I’ve been really impressed by their evidence-based strategies and practical tools.

Another brilliant resource ✨

PUBLICATION: Safer Online Lives: Internet Use and Online Experiences of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities—A Survey Study buff.ly/vZvD5CT

Find out more about this SSCR-funded study: buff.ly/a4dJ4fm

Homeless applications: barriers to in-person help & impact on hospitals | King's College London Jo Underwood; Hannah Piggott

New in the #Homelessness series
Homeless applications: barriers to in-person help & impact on hospitals
11 December 2025 10:00 to 11:00
Online. All welcome!
with Jo Underwood of @kcllaw.bsky.social & Hannah Piggott of @policyatkings.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/homel...

We are seeking a videographer to help us capture the energy and insights our Annual Conference in London on 10 November. Our event brings together educators, policymakers and care experienced students to transform care leavers education.
Please share - reachvolunteering.org.uk/org/national...

Nine in 10 of parents of children with SEND in a survey say lack of support is an issue, with less than 4% feeling the government provides sufficient levels of provision for their child. www.cypnow.co.uk/content/new...

Do you work in the early years?

Then join us at our early years conference on Saturday, 11 October, 10am-4pm, at NEU HQ, Hamilton House, London.

✍️ Apply for your free place here👉 bit.ly/4nkb6Of

Open to non-members

#NEUEarlyYears

Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament Early Years: Improving support for children and parents

Do you work in a maintained nursery school?

Tell the Education Select Committee about the important work you do here.👇
https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3742/

Image of a promotional graphic for a new course aimed at primary educators, discussing speech and language challenges and their relationship with mental health and wellbeing. The left side features a statistic in a speech bubble, stating "45% of young people referred to mental health services have language difficulties," depicted with a small cloud raining on the bubble. The right side emphasizes the course title in bold text against a red background.

This #WorldMentalHealthDay, help every child thrive. 🌱

Our new course for primary educators explores how speech and language challenges link with mental health and wellbeing, with practical classroom strategies.

Start learning today: https://bit.ly/3F83Rc5

Rum stuff about SEND from two insiders here. "There's a lot of worry in the system," says one. No, there are a lot of worried parents. Who, as per the screenshot, know that targeted provision based on assessment is what SEND is (or was?). Which is why we're worried schoolsweek.co.uk/send-adviser...

Thank you so so much to Izzy Judd for talking publicly about being a parent to a kid with PDA. These kids’ parents are some of the hardest-working in the country and need empathy, not judgement. 👏👏👏

SEND system review has been going on for more than six years, all told - and the current rope-a-dope phase has lasted nearly a year

Is it any wonder that people doubt their commitment to early intervention?

DWP plans will see more than 50,000 disabled people lose job support DWP plans mean large numbers of disabled people will no longer qualify for a work allowance to support people looking for employment.

At least 50,000 disabled people could lose access to financial employment support if the government goes ahead with plans to scrap the WCA benefit assessment, according to a new report from Citizens Advice

The true figure is likely to be higher

By me, for Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

Schools contact parents after book links lead to adult website Schools were forced to send out warnings today after children’s books contained hijacked links to pornographic material

Schools have been forced to act after children’s books were found to contain accidental links to an adult-content website

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On SNJ Today: We hope you don't mind a little self-congratulation, as SNJ's @renatawatts.bsky.social & @tanialt.bsky.social are delighted to be nominated among 400 "Women of the Year", an amazing event for "unsung heroes". Read more about it all: www.specialneedsjungle.com/r... #WomenoftheYear2025