As I work with families through the Finding Common Ground project, a number of common themes recur. Over a number of posts I plan to...

The excellent Schools Week has published a couple of articles this week which should give everyone pause for thought, but, with...

Last week, I was sent a message raising a concern from parents of children with EBSA (Emotionally Based School Avoidance - also known as...

In early March social media and messaging apps were full of messages about which secondary school various Year 6s had "got", Parents and...

So, based on the success of the pilot, the Finding Common Ground project now becomes a ongoing service! I am now working on the next...

I set up the Finding Common Ground project on 25 Sept 2023 and gave it 6 months to see if it was a service that was needed. Four and a...

I knew, from long experience, that it was true, but the reality has shocked me. The inconsistency between secondary schools when working...

With many thanks to the team at Special Needs Jungle I have had a very busy and interesting week! SNJ kindly posted information about...

Hope is such a vital, but fragile, force for good. In education we spend so much time working with individual young people and their...

Education is most beneficial for those who are most disadvantaged and therefore schools should prioritise provision for those children. ...

To parents of students who need additional support in secondary school - I know that many you find it perplexing why there are so few...

It has become a commonplace view that Ofsted judgements cannot be relied upon to be an accurate view of a school - several recent...

I have been writing recently about the way in which to choose a secondary school, particularly if your child has additional needs. If...

In my first post on this I looked at the discrepancy in the number of students with additional needs between secondary schools and the...

... where you suddenly realise that what you are doing might be worthwhile? Remember them, for they are priceless. I sent out some...

In my last post I looked at secondary schools in my local area and highlighted the wide discrepancies in the numbers of students on the...

This will be the first in a series of blogs on this topic! For a long time I have been concerned about how parents and families select...

To many professionals in schools hearing about "Finding Common Ground" they might assume that it is about finding new ways to criticise...

Over the last few years I have often encountered the misconception that schools that seek to be inclusive of individual needs tolerate...

Yesterday was one of those days where you realise that sometimes, just sometimes, what you do is worthwhile. I was approached, out of...