The banning of parents from their children's sports events by a London school over the parents' 'bad behaviour' shows what is wrong with our officious safeguarding culture, says Mary Gilleece.
After working with over 100 SEND children, Mary Gilleece has finally met a child with actual special needs. But there isn't enough money to support him because £11 billion is being blown on bogus diagnoses.
Is this the beginning of the end of the Great Disabling? Policy Exchange's excellent new report 'Out of Control' nails the reasons why the medicalisation of childhood is so harmful to children, says Mary Gilleece.
White working-class educational failure isn't about ambition but the damage done by progressive ideologies and bad ideas, says Mary Gilleece.
Gen Z is hooked on Klarna, says Mary Gilleece – the seductive app that uses 'Buy Now Pay Later' to let users splash out with money they don't have. It's a debt-fuelled disaster waiting to happen.
The over-labelling of children with 'special needs' has failed a generation, says education support worker Mary Gilleece. But until the public is shown the human costs of this failure there will be no impetus to reform.
Walking sticks are taking off among teenage girls, and Mary Gilleece spies a social contagion taking hold. They're getting diagnosed with POTS – which, naturally, leaves them in need of lots of attention and support.
Thousands of young people are being paid by the state on condition of remaining 'incapable' of working. It's a tragic, expensive mess – and now they've been betrayed by Keir Starmer once again, says Mary Gilleece.
How did trans and other corrosive woke ideologies take hold? Because we prioritised politeness over honesty, says Mary Gilleece. What began with polite conversation ended with mutilated children and criminalised speech.
The UK's SEND sector is an expensive, infantilising job-creation scheme for middle-aged women that fails to improve outcomes and urgently needs cutting back, argues Mary Gilleece.
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