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My final post in the 'Inclusion Illusion Series' on 'expertise' and the importance of collaboration and professional humility. open.substack.com/pub/aurorare...
Inclusion Illusion Series
Working through my response to the SEND reforms and attempting to contribute to the policy conversation by pointing out some 'illusions', so that we can support schools to be truly inclusive.
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Done another.. on impact and the issues with evaluating it and what counts as evidence open.substack.com/pub/aurorare...
Inclusion Illusions Series
Working through my response to the SEND reforms and attempting to contribute to the policy conversation by pointing out some 'illusions', so that we can support schools to be truly inclusive.
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The second in my 'Inclusion Illusions' series on the 'ISP illusion'... thoughts welcomed.. open.substack.com/pub/aurorare...
Inclusion Illusions Series
Last year I authored a series called radical inclusion.
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The start of my Inclusion Illusions Series open.substack.com/pub/aurorare...
Inclusion Illusions Series
Last year I authored a series called radical inclusion.
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Foundational knowledge seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment - but what does it look like though a subject lens? open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
Foundational Knowledge in Geography
What is geography built upon?
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Our new research with @ucl.ac.uk l.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social finds that setting in maths does not appear to significantly harm the attainment of low prior-attaining or socio-economically disadvantaged secondary school students. Explore the full report: tinyurl.com/3rbmrfdk
The head of a school held up by the government as an exemplar of its planned school food revolution says current funding levels are 'not sufficient' as it has to spend thousands of pounds offsetting costs schoolsweek.co.uk/school-food-...
Food funding 'not sufficient' says school praised by DfE
The Devon school has had to find £16,652 extra to pay for the meals lauded in new school food standards
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This, alongside the ending of the National School Breakfast Programme in secondary is about to make this government even less popular with young people and their families than it already is
Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 4mo agoArgh first give them enough food! share.google/YTdyXeNE4djW...
Couldn’t agree more @bennewmark.bsky.social Can you convene a sensible conference exploring these ideas? Where people with lived experience and access to the evidence can listen to and learn from each other? 🙏🏼
Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew from me. Things Can Get Worse. On why I think the white paper is likely to make things worse. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...
Problem faced. Policy applied. Policy worked. Politics can work.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 11mo agoFor the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
Want to understand the SEND crisis in England? This is an excellent summary of the policy issues from the @theifs.bsky.social ‘England’s SEND crisis: costs, challenges and the case for reform’ ifs.org.uk/articles/eng...
England’s SEND crisis: costs, challenges and the case for reform | Institute for Fiscal Studies
What are the challenges facing the special educational needs system in England, and how can the government could reform the system?
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The last one for now in my ‘Back to School’ series on Inclusion. This is one for leaders leading school improvement in challenging circumstances. Sometimes the simplest answers are right in front of us streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/09/l...
Learners and Families: The value of feeling heard
One of the most demanding- and often draining- elements of a senior or pastoral leaders’ role are the meetings with parents, carers or families that challenge us[1]. Many of whom have long been bou…
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Another highlight was @nimishlad.bsky.social who asked us if a model of learning was enough? I was left wondering what we lose when we condense things and talked by his call to prioritise coherence over consistency
A highlight for me was @lekhasharma.bsky.social and her wonderful new boss Julian sharing their blueprint for uniting people, practices and performance at Life Education Trust
Next at Research Ed I saw @daisychristo.bsky.social sharing her insights on whether or not AI in education is worth the hype. Some very interesting findings re assessment and a crucial reminder of the importance of keeping the human in the loop
Inspired to hear @olicav.bsky.social talk on The Professional Mind at Research Ed yesterday. He offered so many interesting provocations, my favourite being ‘Are you allowed subjectivity in cognitive science?’
Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.
Samantha Booth@samanthajbooth.bsky.social · 12mo agoWhat's his evidence for this inflammatory claim? Can't see any reference to it in the story... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People seem to be enjoying these so here is another one on Inclusion. This time on Provision Mapping. Not the software but meaningful implementation to enable effective, targeted interventions. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/03/p...
Provision Mapping: How does it work and why should Leaders care about it?
In Beyond Boundaries: Leading Great SEND Provision Across a Trust (2024) edited by Natalie Packer and David Bartram[1] I set out my approach to provision mapping, why I think it is at the heart for…
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New from me. The Dangers of Diagnosis. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...
The dangers of diagnosis
Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…
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It's somewhat Secondary specific, so if people would like a Primary one do let me know...
@aurorareid.bsky.social · 12mo agoAnother one in the Inclusion Series, about how to line manage SENDCos well. It's mostly just me saying 'read The SEND Code of Practice' in several different ways but there is a resource at the end that leaders might find helpful. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/02/l...
Another one in the Inclusion Series, about how to line manage SENDCos well. It's mostly just me saying 'read The SEND Code of Practice' in several different ways but there is a resource at the end that leaders might find helpful. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/02/l...
Leading and supporting SENDCos: A practical guide for those that line manage SEND
As a SENDCo I was often frustrated by the lack of domain specific knowledge- about the realities of the role of the SENDCo and the expectations as set out in The SEND Code of Practice- of those abo…
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The third in the 'Back to School' series on Inclusion. This one is about High Quality Teaching and my reflections on why we're not getting it right yet.. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/09/01/n...
Not another blog on high quality teaching
As a leader of SEND there are some phrases that trip off my tongue very readily, ‘every teacher a teacher of SEND, every leader a leader of SEND’ ‘you’re a SENDCo not a SEND- do’, ‘my aim is always…
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NEW POST The second in my series on Inclusion exploring my notion of Radical Inclusion (which is really just placing Inclusion at the heart of everything, which shouldn't be radical at all). streamlinedsendco.com/2025/08/30/r...
Radical Inclusion
The term ‘radical’ has roots. Literally. It comes from the Latin radix, meaning “having roots”. Entering Middle English, the word radical came to be used to mean “fundamental or inherent”. The noti…
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First post in my series on Inclusion about our lack of shared vision for inclusion and the important of getting diverse actors together in a conversation in order to establish one. streamlinedsendco.com/2025/08/21/w...
What actually is Inclusion? Beyond via negativa.
Inclusion is on everybody’s lips right now. From Ofsted to Government, the edu-sphere seems keenly aware we have a problem with SEND and inclusion. Survey after survey indicates that teachers and l…
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Whilst my blog is entitled streamlined SENDCo, I’ve rarely written explicitly about the nuts and bolts of leading SEND. Over the next weeks I will publish a ‘back to school’ toolkit to support those leading SEND and Inclusion provision to do so intentionally, holistically, effectively & sustainably.
