Hi Everyone,
Thank you so much for supporting this really important campaign - we have now reached over 3,000 signatures and it is literally growing by the minute.
There has been a lot of media interest in the last few days, and I have just met with a BBC regional news reporter who is covering this. We know this issue is a problem beyond a runny nose, and we need to keep raising this as a concern.
Here are a couple of links to reports which have been done by asking children themselves about their feelings and their experiences of school. It makes for depressing reading - sorry..... (one is SEND-specific and one isn't):
https://www.edge.co.uk/documents/349/DD0940_-_Young_Futures_Young_Lives_FINAL_JVbavJ7.pdf
Thank you to the hundreds of you who have shared this petition. Please keep sharing it on any of your social media platforms. We need the DfE campaign removed and replaced with full and meaningful consultation with those who are affected by this.
KR,
Emma
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