Changing Realities participants have been using their lived expertise to engage with the Schools White Paper and SEND reform. Nik writes about her experiences of parenting a SEND child while living in poverty, and a roundtable with Sec. of State 4 Education:
www.changingrealities.org/blog/jugglin...
I have just returned home to Cornwall from London. Not on a trip to see the Queen as the rhyme goes but to see the Secretary of State. I was part of a crew of people who presented their lived experience of juggling poverty and being a parent of a child or children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) in response to the recent White Paper on SEND reforms.