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Milly Gandy retweeted
Only SIX days left. The petition to protect SEND legal rights is 2nd out of 2,210 government petitions. Please help to save disabled children’s rights in England by signing and sharing.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Milly Gandy retweeted
Proposed £12bn cut to #disability benefits for children called ‘shockingly cruel’
The proposals have been labelled ‘shockingly cruel’
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Milly Gandy retweeted
It seems as though Labour are effectively going to decree that everyone under the age of 25 (apart from those who have met the severe conditions criteria) will effectively be deemed to be capable of work-related activity, with the health element not being accessible to them before then. An entirely ridiculous suggestion.
I don't know who came up with such an idea but I can tell you one thing, it wasn't a disabled person.
Of course this could be a media spin, whereby they put out something completely outrageous and then they announce the actual policy and it's a slightly watered down version, but either way, effectively forcing thousands of disabled people to compete for jobs they won't be able to do is completely nonsensical proposition.
Milly Gandy retweeted
Labour’s inactivity adviser swears at DNS editor after being challenged on safety of young claimants
#AlanMilburn #Lab26 #Safeguarding
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Dear Prime Minister #SEND
1,000s of parent and child testimonies revealing a National Picture of Harm
1,000s of submissions for the White/Green SEND consultations & Parliamentary Committee Debates/Reports stating legal rights should be retained and accountability strengthened
Milly Gandy retweeted
It is not necessary to remove disabled children’s rights to improve the SEND system. Please listen to families. Over 80,000 people have signed the petition to protect #SEND legal rights.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Milly Gandy retweeted
I'd like a correction please @BBCNews in this article you claim that the Timms review said PIP was a barrier to work for many.
The Timms review does not say it's a barrier for many in fact it says:-
"We also found that while many disabled people say that PIP is vital in helping them meet the extra costs of disability and participate in everyday life, others stated PIP creates barriers to participating fully in work, social and community life."
Number of people claiming key disability benefit hits record high bbc.in/4xn6c7N
Milly Gandy retweeted
If you intend to proceed despite those warnings, please explain what enforceable protection a child will have when a school or local authority fails to provide the support they need ... which based on evidence IRL happens all too frequently! @IPSEAcharity @SpcialNdsJungle
Milly Gandy retweeted
Removing disabled children’s rights is anything but fair. Is Labour membership just going to sit by and allow this to happen? #SaveSENDLegalRights #NotInOurName
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Milly Gandy retweeted
It seems this Government’s legacy will be the removal of disabled children’s rights. There’s no lower ambition than that. @LucyMPowell @andyburnham
#SaveSENDLegalRights
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Milly Gandy retweeted
Would you trust a Govt that removes parents legal right to challenge unlawful SEND decisions? Around 95% of SEND tribunal rulings go against LA’s If councils are losing at that rate, why remove parents right to hold them to account instead of fixing the decisions? @andyburnham
Milly Gandy retweeted
Her SEND legacy should be judged by one question: did it strengthen children’s rights or weaken them? She heard countless accounts of poor LA decision making, yet proposed reducing parental legal rights to challenge it. That’s not ambition - that’s a serious safeguarding failure.
Milly Gandy retweeted
SEND parents have been gaslit for years.
Now an ITV whistleblower says council staff were told to delay support, dodge families and avoid paper trails.
My daughter was out of school for 2.5 years.
My son has no school place for September.
The Friday 5pm bad-news calls. The emails before leave. The missing school consultations. The obstruction.
We were not imagining it.
It was never a broken system.
It was a strategy.
Managers told council staff to delay access to SEND support and laughed about it, whistleblower says
itv.com/news/2026-07-03/coun…
Milly Gandy retweeted
“I am compelled to issue this urgent policy response to express our profound disgust regarding the @educationgovuk new Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) promotional films featuring @missgemcollins.”
#RestoreSafeguarding
Harmless is profoundly frustrated with the @educationgovuk’s disgraceful new SEND campaign featuring Gemma Collins, which resembles a cheap soap opera rather than a serious strategy. @bphillipsonMP @scope
Read our full response here: tinyurl.com/yaa7phpf
Milly Gandy retweeted
Labour plans for special needs pupils 'will overwhelm classrooms' | The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05…
Milly Gandy retweeted
“At a time when there are huge critical issues dividing the country, when people are looking to politicians for leadership and unity, it would be appallingly bad optics for Westminster to spend weeks quarrelling over assisted suicide for NHS patients”
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ALT A blue and yellow infographic. It has the blue and yellow BuDS logo and a QR code link to the BuDS website. There is a central quote which reads: “At a time when there are huge critical issues dividing the country, when people are looking to politicians and politics for leadership and unity in the national interest, it would be appallingly bad optics for Westminster to spend weeks quarrelling over assisted suicide for NHS patients, a policy which has never appeared on any party manifesto”. Under the quote are the words “Why Another Assisted Dying Bill Isn’t Needed. BuDS Disability Service, May 2026”
Milly Gandy retweeted
There has never been a shortage of optimism from #HS2 supporters but there has been a distinct shortage of accountability for cost increases and delays. To say ‘Turned around’ when the project is a de-scoped shadow of the original scheme is a joke.
Milly Gandy retweeted
Chief political editor - Independent, actively spreading disinformation re eligibility of blue badge People with non visible disabilities are already becoming targets for hate crimes This vilification of disabled people & attempts to create a hierarchy of disabilities has to end
“I have ADHD – but even I think giving people like me blue badges is ridiculous” Victoria Richards independent.co.uk/voices/adh…
Milly Gandy retweeted
The government that is stripping legal rights of SEND children in education to save money, is spending vast amounts on social media influencers in a hope of not looking like complete bastards. What the hell are they thinking?
Gemma Collins is in the building and she's got questions.
Coming soon📷
@bphillipsonMP
