Louise Platt

Ha! Tbf we are near the main village so it’s busy but far enough away from Heaton park to avoid the carnage!

Try living in Prestwich 🙈😂

image shows official Alison Ismail with dark long hair and Minister Catherine McKinnell with short wavy hair

NEW POST: Under questioning from MPs at this week's Education Select Committee's SEND Inquiry hearing, Schools Minister, Catherine McKinnell repeatedly refused to guarantee SEND legal rights. @catrionamoore.bsky.social bravely watched it all for SNJ. Your thoughts? www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...

If you know of parades or processions of any type in GM or Lancashire please see below. There is a link in here to add events to the map. We are missing so much (past and present) practice.

Processional Cultures Greater Manchester and Lancashire

We made a map (well it’s ongoing… please add!) of parades and processions in GM and Lancashire with zero GIS skills but I’m open to learning (and trial and error) and I’m pretty pleased storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d6d...

A Quiet Life EP on cassette, case and cassette side by side with A Quiet Life artwork.

A Quiet Life EP cassette case, showing A Quiet Life artwork.

A Quiet Life EP on cassette, case and cassette side by side with Transition artwork.

A Quiet Life EP cassette case, showing Transition artwork.

Twenty years ago we released our second EP, A Quiet Life, on Deltasonic Records. To mark the anniversary, we’re releasing the original EP on streaming services and our first ever cassette. Available on Bandcamp and limited to 100 copies. thelongcut.bandcamp.com/album/transi...

Another parade cancelled. This is something I’m really concerned about and building into my research. I’ve not focused on Pride really as mainly looked at traditional heritage events but this news is so worrying for the community and for processional practices.

after a year the LA finally agreed his EHCP..four days before our tribunal hearing. It is a massive waste of time and resource and I’m too angry to celebrate yet. A place at a SEN school was agreed in Oct (to start in Sept) but we wanted SLT intervention added. It took til now to get that.

I’m still hoping got more responses! I know all the local Pride parades are missing but also there must be lots of village and small town parades out there (historical or contemporary). Please share! (I promise to get more active on here 🙈).

The special needs trap What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.

An excellent piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social in The @newstatesman.com on his family's SEND struggles. High praise for SNJ's "battle-hardened SEND veterans" ”Don’t take away children’s rights, because if you do, you'll have a hell of a fight on your hands.” www.newstatesman.com/politic...

Landed in my postbox yesterday and really excited to read. Your son and ours sound so similar (he is just 4) and music is so central to him. We are lucky to access a group session with Nordoff and Robbins (not always the most relaxing experience it has to be said) and for that we are grateful!

I am mapping processions and parades in greater Manchester and Lancashire. Can you help me by adding any you know about/remember! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

50th Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference | York St John University The 50th Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference provides opportunities for researchers and practitioners to examine a range of social and spatial justice issues.

The second call for papers for LSA 2025 is available! To submit your abstract, please access templates and instructions @ leisurestudies.org/lsa2025/ and email your abstract to lsa2025@yorksj.ac.uk.

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The Longcut - Transition artwork

The original Transition EP is now available on streaming. Listen here:

music.lnk.to/Vy2nzq

Cath Aubergine from the legendary ManchesterMusic.co.uk has written a few words reflecting on the release, far better than we could. Link below:

thelongcut.com

Creative Research Methods for Critical Event Studies This timely and innovative book offers an introduction to a range of creative methods, providing both empirical and conceptual guidance.  Based upon existing empirical work and richly illustrated thro...

Check out our new book: Creative Methods in Critical Event Studies. Great working with @drluplatt.bsky.social and Dr Briony Sharp as always, and such interesting and innovative research highlighted by chapter authors. www.routledge.com/Creative-Res...

It’s 20 years today since we released the Transition EP. Recorded in a studio in Liverpool, above a garage, where Space would periodically come in to grab equipment from their rehearsal room next to the live room, and released by the legendary Deltasonic Records.

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Patisserie week on bake off is not the one when you have high blood pressure 🫣

CFP: Leisure Studies special issue on Leisure & Technologies. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Our autistic son sings more words than speaks so certainly adding this to my reading list @louderlouder.bsky.social

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I find this so fascinating having done drama at Manchester uni myself (state educated, father in professional job but neither parents went to HE). I wonder how different the picture was back in 2001 when I started but I am conscious it was very white!

On the left is a mural of a rural scene collage with flowers, cars, bins, animals. In the middle is a board with photos of families walking. A red post box is on the right with post it notes stuck to it.

A tv screen split into 4 with stills of go-pro footage of walks. The images are of streams and footpaths from the height of a small child.

Check out our new project on display at Holmfirth Library. Co-created with walking families from 6months old upwards! The families created a mural picturing their walks and we captured child/buggy eye view footage!for more see … Www.familyroutesproject.wordpress.com

What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind | John Harris The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you that’s a lie, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Muffin energy captured perfectly here

Just read and feel hopeful change might come! I drop and pick Arlen up each day and could cry. He is happy and they say he is doing ok but I wish I could feel confident his needs were met everyday and not just muddling through!

The SEND “Emergency” debate: scrap safety valve, write-off high needs debt and stop piling trauma on to families - Special Needs Jungle The SEND “Emergency” debate: scrap safety valve, write-off high needs debt and stop piling trauma on to families

Just scrap Safety Valve now! Let my child access education he can thrive in and not just cope. Is it naive to read this and feel hopeful? @sharonlsmith.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-emergen...

Really sad news to read this morning.

In this new austerity moment, a fight is on: for the rights of children with special educational needs | John Harris Cuts ruin lives and raise costs. This scandal is already playing out in the system, and it should be a warning to Labour, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Latest from me: on the dangers of new austerity, and the fight already underway for children with special educational needs, and the basic rights of their families www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On me hols! Autistic son in element as holiday house has a swing ❤️Pretty sure we might be still out here at midnight 😂 Wales never disappoints

I’m entering into week 5 now (with attempts to work about 8 days over the last two weeks). One week left on my own and then one week family holiday to wales. I am not rested! 🙄