Georgia Lambert

Keen to speak to #SEND parents whose children have to make long journeys in council-funded transport to school every day because there isn't any local provision, for a story in the paper #journorequest
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georgia.lambert@the-times.co.uk Thanks!

Parents of children with EHCPs with home-to-school provision: Is your child having to travel long distances because there’s no local provision? Please get in touch if you're in this position at georgia.lambert@the-times.co.uk
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#journorequest

Ministers ‘to scrap special-needs plans’ in cost-saving measure Ending support plans for children with disabilities could leave some of the 570,000 affected children without vital help, campaigners warn

This article by @kendix.bsky.social and @georgiamay.bsky.social shows that the nervousness around reforming / scrapping EHCPs is already palpable.

As I've said before, doing nothing and doing something with the SEND system are both very risky.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Labour plans to fix special needs system with more inclusive schools Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, intends for more children to be taught in mainstream schools to address absenteeism and spiralling costs

Education secretary intends for more children to be taught in mainstream schools to "address absenteeism and spiralling costs".
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#education

The British secret agent haunted by Bergen-Belsen’s stench of death

Anne Powys-Lybbe, a 24-year-old spy in Churchill’s ‘secret army’, helped to liberate the Nazi camp in 1945. Before she died she left a searing account for her family

On the hunt to speak to an NHS clinician about ADHD for a story in @thetimes.com, if you know of anyone, please DM or email me at georgia.lambert@the-times.co.uk Thanks!
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Home schooling soars by a fifth in England over the past year Over 111,000 children in England are now being home schooled

Home schooling soars by a fifth in England over the past year.
Over 111,000 children in England now home schooled.
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Looking to hear from current students at the University of Oxford about last week’s debate on Palestine and the motion declaring Israel an apartheid state responsible for genocide. How might this judgement impact the student body? Let me know georgia.lambert@the-times.co.uk @PressPlugs @DotStarMedia