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Educational Assistants: Speaking out about their experience….

Gary Direnfeld

Yesterday I posed a question to Educational Assistants on my Facebook page. This is reflective of the comments: “394 violent incident reports filed in 27 days of school, that is how our year is going in our board. In one class alone over 11 evacuations in 27 school days. I asked how the year is going so far. You can help.

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Budget: Hunt finds £165m for children’s homes as part of public sector productivity drive

Community Care

.” DfE’s existing plans to curb placement costs It is unclear what these measures will consist of but they are likely to be additional to those contained in the Department for Education’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy to tackle excess profits in the children’s home sector.

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Ontario Elementary Teachers Need Our Support

Gary Direnfeld

Doug Ford’s government through Stephen Lecce, the Minister of Education will be spinning tales hoping to pit parents against educators. Some believe this to be in part a gender bias, and while it may be, in truth education, like healthcare, is expensive. Ontario used to be the envy of the world for its public education.

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Educational Assistants: First Responders in the School System

Gary Direnfeld

It’s no secret I have an affinity for educational assistants. Even the school they attended was on the grounds of the treatment centre. Of course there was the promise of more money to assure appropriate supports both in their residences as well as in public schools. To me, they are heros in education.

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LADO role faces review after disabled children abuse inquiry identifies ‘major failings’

Community Care

Education secretary Gillian Keegan announced the review in a statement to Parliament after the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published the report of phase 1 of its inquiry into serious abuse and neglect of disabled children in three residential special schools in Doncaster. What is the LADO role?

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Violence in Schools

Gary Direnfeld

I have had several messages and conversations this week about violence in schools. If your child isn’t sleeping well at night or expresses fear about attending school, that may not be anxiety as you thought. Again, ask your kid about violence literally in the classroom, let alone the school yard. They were all unrelated.

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Liz Truss appoints cabinet ministers for social care

Community Care

Kit Malthouse has become the fourth education secretary to hold office this year – following Nadhim Zahawi, Michelle Donelan and James Cleverley – giving him responsibility for children’s social care.