“It’s a behaviour problem”

“It must be a home problem”

“We are not seeing it”

These words are used like weapons against SEND families. More and more children are struggling in UK schools – and most of those children have Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND). But while policy makers, schools and the media have spent years trying to blame parents for the huge numbers of children “disappearing” from schools, no-one has looked at the deepest root of the problem: the school system itself.

Until now.

In “We Are Not Seeing It: How & Why Mainstream Schools Break SEND Kids”, blogger and parent Luisa Gray (aka. @LongRoadSENDMum) explains what the drivers of the SEND emergency REALLY are — and how UK schools and Local Authorities are routinely causing harm to SEND children: harm that is massive, with potentially life-long effects. "We Are Not Seeing It" explains:

• How anyone can be a SEND parent (and not know it yet!)

• "The Social Contract" we enter when we send our kids to school

• “Quality First Teaching” and how it fails to meet most kids' needs

• "Command & Control" discipline that's gone out of control

• SEND law, and how it’s routinely ignored

• Parent blame, child blame and gaslighting

• The devastating mental health impact on kids and parents

• And how all these factors have created the perfect storm in mainstream schools.

"We Are Not Seeing It" is the book every parent of school-age children needs to listen to.