Get your facts straight Orgs and academics on the facts and narrative around oversight of children, especially around attendance and children 'not in school'
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When I advocate for children’s voices to be heard, I am told of the dire consequences that will follow if we allow children to make meaningful choices. ‘They’ll never do anything hard’ I’m told. Or ‘We’d have no doctors or engineers if we did that’. Here’s why that’s wrong.1/
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When you meet children and teenagers who have not been schooled, you see something quite different. They are still interested and curious. They haven’t learnt to choose the easy option. They want to learn - and so they do. They set themselves challenges. 7/
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A short thread on @OakNational, their founding documents and their claims to independence from government interference... @JonColes01 @Jonathan_Dando @warwickmansell @RealGeoffBarton @johnrobeds
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Damning words by @ICOnews with regards to @educationgovuk’s flagrant profiteering from pupils’ data. Our children & young people deserve & are entitled to better than this. @defenddigitalme @CountChildrenUK @SuitableEd @NotFineinSchool @NSPCC @ChildrensComm @coyl2022
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The Real World on Think Again naomicfisher.substack.com/p/…
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The DfE in a data breach which the ICO commissioner said was so serious it merited a £10million fine
This is the latest in a string of offences. Yet they want us to trust them in the Schools Bill, which will write govt a blank cheque for children's data itv.com/news/2022-11-05/depa…
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The Schools Bill includes measures which enable extraordinary levels or State surveillance over children and which pose a grave threat to the most vulnerable and marginalised in our society.
#SupportNotSanctions
#SafetyNotSurveillance
#NoToSchoolsBill
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Open letter: "It is vital that the Schools Bill be withdrawn and that it not be replaced with another containing the same powers."
notoschoolsbill.uk/open-lett…
@hiddendepths @naomicfisher @NExclusions @YorkTravellers @UKVCF @Andy_Bilson @NotFineinSchool @teamsquarepeg @PFAN_UK
CountingChildren? retweeted
The government is further rolling out the live attendance tracker, part of their extraordinary surveillance measures of children.
@defenddigitalme is mounting an important legal challenge but need support.
Please donate to protect children
crowdjustice.com/case/defend…
The @ICOnews raised concerns about new attendance data collection measures in schools, documents reveal. @defenddigitalme says collecting the information is "disproportionate and unnecessary": techmonitor.ai/policy/privac… @OpenRightsGroup
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An important paper, particularly when considering calls for action around attendance management & safeguarding duty. The evidence speaks volumes @educationgovuk @aewm1917 @reviewCSC @ChildrensComm @ncbtweets @LordJimKnight @LordPhilofBrum @natalieben @LordLucasCD @CountChildrenUK
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CountingChildren? retweeted
The right to family life free from interference from Government is sorely lacking. We are measured, assessed, scrutinised, followed, monitored, coerced, threatened, bullied, blamed, shamed from the moment we are expectant parents, give our children to pre-school onwards.
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Remember the outrage caused by the strip search of Child Q in Hackney?
Today I can reveal that five children are being strip searched every week by the Met, without being arrested for anything first.
More than half of the children were black. @LBC lbc.co.uk/news/met-strip-sea…
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This consultation is neither accessible nor ‘meant’ for families/parent carers and yet impacts & affects them. Just not conducive to good policy development or co-produced public services. @educationgovuk #nothingaboutuswithoutus
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We are asking @UKHouseofLords peers to support several amendments proposed for the #SchoolsBill Report Stage Day 2 debate on Monday July 18th, including 86B, 93A, 95A and B, plus 118C bills.parliament.uk/publicat… #ScrapPartThree
We have published a supplemental update to our Report Stage briefing to address the new government amendments to Clause 49 (was 48) #SchoolsBill #ScrapPartThree countingchildren.uk/policy/
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Plans for a register of children not in school could put families off seeking help from local services, campaigners warn
They have also questioned ministers' new #schoolsbill plans to collect data on pupils’ protected characteristics
schoolsweek.co.uk/campaigner…
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The new DfE school exclusions and behaviour in schools guidance documents were published yesterday. Here is a thread of thoughts/points of note based on an initial reading 🧵
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Really important thread 👇
The DfE is ALREADY using children's personal information in ways that are exploitative and dangerous.
The Schools Bill would amplify this risk and harm.
Protect children. Say NO to the Schools Bill.
The #SchoolsBill has new Part 3 concessions—but SoS “thinks should be included” isn’t any better. *Publishing* wld already be unlawful—risk is govt *gives it away* commercially like today’s pupil data @LordJimKnight @SalBrinton @NatWei @GreenJennyJones defenddigitalme.org/2021/10/… 1/
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New: End punitive approach to pupil absence, with more collaborative policies written into law, government is urged
educationuncovered.co.uk/new…
Interesting suggestions from the groups Square Peg and Not Fine in School,as schools bill,with its clauses on attendance,returns to Lords
CountingChildren? retweeted
The #SchoolsBill has new Part 3 concessions—but SoS “thinks should be included” isn’t any better. *Publishing* wld already be unlawful—risk is govt *gives it away* commercially like today’s pupil data @LordJimKnight @SalBrinton @NatWei @GreenJennyJones defenddigitalme.org/2021/10/… 1/
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“Parents need to know this isn’t right. Councils have a legal obligation to properly consider what alternative education is provided when a child cannot attend school, and it must be suitable to the child – not a token gesture of the minimum hours.” @LGOmbudsman