Gemma, thank you so, so much for your generous and well considered response to my piece about SEN assessments. And yes, I think that loneliness is key to how it is for parents in this position, trying to use a system that is unfamiliar and with so much at stake. Warmest wishes to you and yours. 🤗
Thank you, Davina. Yes, often the community and support for parents comes later down the line, after the assessments have taken place and the reports have been written. In sharing this part of Sam’s story, you have brought light to an important topic and given voice to important questions 🙏
I was similarly moved by Davina's post. This is such an important and compassionate piece in response. The way children (and adults) are talked about in reports is not ok. They deserve to be treated with humanity and compassionate, which is so lacking in the system.
It really is. I saw it then, but having spent a good time being fully outside of the system and not having to ‘just get on with it’, I really see it now. We have been conditioned to accept things as the norm or the way they have to be done, but I think more of us are seeing that we can and should challenge that thinking. Thank you for reading and supporting both of our articles.
Gemma, thank you so, so much for your generous and well considered response to my piece about SEN assessments. And yes, I think that loneliness is key to how it is for parents in this position, trying to use a system that is unfamiliar and with so much at stake. Warmest wishes to you and yours. 🤗
Thank you, Davina. Yes, often the community and support for parents comes later down the line, after the assessments have taken place and the reports have been written. In sharing this part of Sam’s story, you have brought light to an important topic and given voice to important questions 🙏
I was similarly moved by Davina's post. This is such an important and compassionate piece in response. The way children (and adults) are talked about in reports is not ok. They deserve to be treated with humanity and compassionate, which is so lacking in the system.
It really is. I saw it then, but having spent a good time being fully outside of the system and not having to ‘just get on with it’, I really see it now. We have been conditioned to accept things as the norm or the way they have to be done, but I think more of us are seeing that we can and should challenge that thinking. Thank you for reading and supporting both of our articles.
Yes, compassion and humanity have to be at the heart of all of this. 🙏