Cheap tickets for benefits families miss the point, says Mary Gilleece, arguing the real issue is deep cultural deprivation and that only everyday schooling, work and culture can fix it.
One in eight UK children are disabled, according to their parents. With so many too mentally and physically feeble for work or military service, where is the urgent response to this national calamity, asks Mary Gilleece.
Labour's SEND reforms at least recognise there is a need to address overdiagnosis of special needs in schools and curb numbers, says Mary Gilleece. But the changes won't even kick in till 2029.
Starmer claims he’s "lifting 500,000 children out of poverty". Just one problem, says Mary Gilleece: Gordon Brown already did that in 2010. It's as if Left-wing schemes don't address the true causes of human misery.
The fact that a psychologist and surgeon have been successfully sued in America for carrying out a double mastectomy on a 'trans' child ought to send panic through the entire child psychology industry, says Mary Gilleece.
'Safeguarding' is becoming a big problem, and not just because it's being weaponised against conservatives, says Mary Gilleece. Children are being put at risk as criminal conduct is tolerated under 'safeguarding' rules.
Hats off to Wes Streeting for addressing the obvious over-diagnosis of autism, ADHD and other mental health disorders that are driving the welfare crisis, says Mary Gilleece. But will it root out the real causes?
Who is making money from children with mental illness? It's not just Big Pharma, says Mary Gilleece. There's a whole industry of mental illness farmers earning tidy profits from keeping young people in misery.
Bridget Philipson's curriculum reforms have ignored a growing two-tier state education system, warns Mary Gilleece.
Teenage girls are now being labelled as autistic even when they have no symptoms, with the claim they are 'masking' their condition. Isn't it more likely that the 'autism spectrum' is now just a racket, says Mary Gilleece.
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