Special Needs Jungle, In Conversation

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Special Needs Jungle, In Conversation

Join Special Needs Jungle's Renata Blower, Tania Tirraoro and team, in conversations about current issues and interesting aspects around special educational needs and disabilities. The team will be chatting with a variety of voices from the world of SEND, explaining, exploring and educating on everything you need to know. The programme is also available in vision on YouTube. Theme credit: Luca Tirraoro

  1. SNJ in Conversation: CFA 10 years on Brian Lamb OBE says building good parental relationships is the key to fixing SEND

    AUG 29

    SNJ in Conversation: CFA 10 years on Brian Lamb OBE says building good parental relationships is the key to fixing SEND

    SNJ's Sharon Smith and Tania Tirraoro talk to veteran SEND expert, Brian Lamb OBE a new episode of SNJ in Conversation on the Children and Families Act 10 years on. Brian says building good parental relationships is the key to fixing SEND Find the webpage for this episode here

    1 hr
  2. SNJ in Conversation with Edward Timpson CBE KC “You’ve got to really care about families and their lives …”

    MAY 31

    SNJ in Conversation with Edward Timpson CBE KC “You’ve got to really care about families and their lives …”

    In the third podcast in our series on a decade of the Children and Families Act 2014, SNJ ’s Tania and Renata talks to former SEND Minister, Edward Timpson, who steered the legislation through parliament. We discuss the battles he had to fight to create a legal duty on health in the Act, and to bring in Ofsted /CQC SEND inspections. What does he wish he’d been able to push further? And what else might be different if he hadn’t lost his seat—and ministerial role— in the 2017 election. Edward Timpson grew up surrounded by children his parents fostered—more than 80 of them. It endowed him with a deep sense of empathy of the problems children face when their needs have not been met. As an MP and Children and Families Minister, he used that knowledge to push for legislative change for disabled children. As he takes his leave of parliament, he discusses how he plans to work again as a family law barrister with the aim of becoming a judge so he can take decisions that positively affect children’s lives in a direct way. Find the webpage for this episode here https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/snjic-edward-timpson-care-families-lives/

    57 min
  3. SNJ in Conversation: 10 years of the Children & Families Act: Philippa Stobbs on the wins and losses

    MAY 17

    SNJ in Conversation: 10 years of the Children & Families Act: Philippa Stobbs on the wins and losses

    Philippa Stobbs OBE worked for 30 years at the centre of developing national SEND policy with the Council for Disabled Children—she's the highly-respected doyenne of SEN. Few people have as encyclopaedic knowledge of special educational needs as she does. She spent decades negotiating with the government of the day to ensure legislation and new policy supported children with disabilities, pushing back against government plans that would do the opposite. In a fascinating and educational conversation, Philippa talks to SNJ's Tania Tirraoro and Sharon Smith about a decade of the Children and Families Act 2014 that she was instrumental in influencing, what came before, and what she thinks the future holds. Find the webpage for this episode here

    1h 13m

  4. APR 19

    10 Years of the Children & Families Act 2014: Stephen Kingdom

    This is Part 1 of a series on a decade of The Children and Families Act that was passed in 2014. What went wrong and what went right? First up is Stephen Kingdom, now of the Disabled Children’s Partnership, but in 2012, he was the SEND man at the DfE. Stephen looks back at the creating and implementation of the CFA and discusses with Tania Tirraoro and Sharon Smith what he'd do differently now he's been on "the other side". The webpage for this episode is: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/children-and-families-act-10-years-stephen-kingdom-dfe-implementation/

    44 min
  5. SNJ in Conversation with Dame Christine Lenehan

    09/27/2023

    SNJ in Conversation with Dame Christine Lenehan

    SNJ's Tania and Renata chat to newly-retired Director of the Council for Disabled Children about her career, her biggest achievements and who her favourite SEND minister has been... Find the webpage for the episode, including pictures from Dame Christine's Valedictory address to the SEND sector, here

    47 min
  6. What are Labour ‘s plans for SEND? We speak to Helen Hayes MP

    08/15/2023

    What are Labour ‘s plans for SEND? We speak to Helen Hayes MP

    While few except the DfE think the Government's SEND Improvement Plan is going to fix special educational needs provision in England, Tania & Renata ask Labour's spokesperson on SEND, Helen Hayes MP, for her views on the issue. Find the podcast webpage here: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/snj-in-conversation-labour-send-spokesperson-helen-hayes-mp-fixing-send/

    47 min

  7. 05/11/2023

    SNJ in Conversation with Carrie Grant: Supporting children at the intersection of SEND, Race and Gender Identity

    Vocal coach and celebrity, Carrie Grant MBE is well known for having a diverse family. Along with her husband, singer, David Grant, she has four neurodivergent, mixed race children, several of whom also identify as transgender. Two are also up and coming actors, including in the series, Hollyoaks. In an interesting and entertaining episode of SNJ in Conversation, Carrie discusses these intersections with Tania Tirraoro and Renata Blower, and the difficulties they have encountered along the way. Find the post that accompanies https://wp.me/p3S8eh-8gf If this subject is one you want to comment on, remember these are real young people with real feelings so please be respectful.

    52 min
  8. SNJ in Conversation with public lawyer, Steve Broach: SEND Law in 2023

    03/13/2023

    SNJ in Conversation with public lawyer, Steve Broach: SEND Law in 2023

    In the first SNJ in Conversation podcast of the year, Renata and Tania put your questions to public lawyer Steve Broach about SEND law in 2023. Your questions answered about EHCPs, Annual Reviews, what, if anything, has changed, group challenges via Judicial Review and much more! Listen to the show and find the show webpage here: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/snj-in-conversation-send-law-in-2023-public-law-barrister-steve-broach-answers-your-questions/

    53 min
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Join Special Needs Jungle's Renata Blower, Tania Tirraoro and team, in conversations about current issues and interesting aspects around special educational needs and disabilities. The team will be chatting with a variety of voices from the world of SEND, explaining, exploring and educating on everything you need to know. The programme is also available in vision on YouTube. Theme credit: Luca Tirraoro

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