As for Neil O'Brien and the other Tories wailing about “vile class wars” and it being “unfair”? Do they not know that this system is happening under legislation brought in by TORIES in 2014? Ignorant? Or just love a bit of rage-farming Labour bashing? 7/13
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And you’d have thought that the Daily Mail might have gently pointed out to the mother who “complained bitterly and asked who created these eligibility criteria” that it was indeed the Tories. But no, why would the DM do that when they can attack Labour instead?🤦🏼♀️ 8/13
The DM drop in that little paragraph highlighting that this is ONLY to do with OT treatment- only to do with the educational support services. Yet they want to scare people into thinking private school kids will be DENIED NHS care That’s a horrendous, scaremongering claim 9/13
They even throw in a story about a young cancer patient to try and widen the coverage. But that was about the cost of tutoring on the ward. The council provide it for state schools. And for whatever reason the private school weren’t offering it for their own students. 10/13
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Brilliant analysis. Thanks so much.
So as ever - when you see a headline that makes you furious: 📍stop and take a breath 📍does it really sound plausible? 📍could there be more context? 📍do the people sharing the story have an agenda? 📍have a little dig around! Because there is ALWAYS more to it! 11/13
If only those salivating for a fight cared about such a deep, and well thought out logical description of what actually happened.
Thanks to @sparky300 over on Twitter for the suggestion! It did indeed get my creative juices flowing! 😁🤓 From seeing their tagged post at 9:45 to a full thread at 11:20 - that's definitely a record for me!😂 12/13
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What really pisses me off , is that there are so few speech therapists for children in state schools . Why should a scarce resource be shared with pupils whose parents are happy to pay for other services 😡 In the great scheme of thousands in fee , another couple of hundred should be doable 🙄
As ever, there's always an angle. It frustrates me their isn't a watch dog of some description to punish this blatant misinformation. News should be boring, not sensational. The reason politicians get away with so much is because they know how to snowball us with negativity.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Newspapers are political campaigning leaflets, not providers of news, and, literally, not worth the paper they're printed on - or the click of my mouse.
I think the best model is news media to be government funded but independent. I know the BBC is a bad example, but that can be done better, I'm convinced. But the profit driven model isn't working. Especially when every news article is paywalled!
I think the BBC does a reasonable, not great, job at balance. Obviously, sometimes they balance something which needs no balance, but they get there mostly. But on your point, I agree. We just need the truth, not some skewed tripe.
I know it's the least substantial inaccuracy in their piece, but it truly irks me that they couldn't even get the professional title right! It's Occupational Therapy - not Occupational Health Therapy. Occupational Therapy (OT) and Occupational Health are two ENTIRELY different disciplines 🙄
there is an even easier way, read the top if it says 'mail online' its is made up horseshit.
I wonder if there’s a thread trying to see when Ric Holden last told the truth? Maybe it was when he said he was staying in his Penrith seat….?
Nearly everything you read in the newspaper since you were 5 years old is agitprop
Wonderful counter Emma, thank you. I'm puzzled by the Tories' logic for excluding a private scholar from the provision when the parents fund the service every bit as much as a state scholar's parents do. It seems Tories are more dedicated to penny-pinching exclusion than to fair treatment.
I’ve got an article that could be like this. Unfortunately, it isn’t: it’s worse than it sounds. The context in most cases seems to be, is this happening to privileged or marginalised people? If marginalised, it’s too often true, or even being under-sold for how bad it is: bsky.app/profile/tand...
The next step is to do the same things to headlines that make you really happy. People dishonestly play to both emotions, and getting happy about a lie only sets you up for anger and disappointment later.
Whatever happened to the real investigative journalists? Carol Cadwaller set the bar high admittedly, but surely truth telling should be paramount, not sensationalism and sound bites.
I really wish people would take this advice, and not just when reading something from the Mail or the Telegraph; sadly the likes of The Guardian etc are just as guilty of misleading and rage-farming people.
Of course- should be applied to all media sources.
👏👏 Excellent analysis and dissection of the Daily Heil's motives for the headline. If the Tory government had implimented the findings of Leveson 1 and started Leveson 2, I can't help but think headlines like these would be fewer.
These 'journalists' and politicians are fully conscious of their deceit - and yet they sleep like well-fed babies with clean nappies.
Alcohol and/or drugs helps to keep their consciences at bay..
Well done Emma.
And who reduced the provision of hospital education so it is more often done by personal tutoring instead of an education unit in paediatrics? Yes, the Tories. Bet most of the private school parents were fine with education budget restrictions and decimating LAs at the time.
Thanks for a excellent thread. There are few certainties in life, but you can always rely on the DM for hypocritical and biased rage farming. My disgust for the DM goes back to May 1971 (I’m that old) when the DM bought The Daily Sketch and assaulted my dear old mum with hate stories for 25 years …
I totally get the SEN issues and you properly put the DM coverage into perspective. However I find the tuition fees for the child undergoing cancer treatment as casually dismissive. Those parents and the child will under immense strain and will have paid their share in to the state system.
Apologies for the dismissive tone. I appreciate that they must have been under immense pressure. It’s the cynical use of that story to make this “seem” more widespread that frustrated me. The article is trying to make out kids are being refused healthcare - and they aren’t.
But my understanding is that once parents opt out of the state system, there is no government funding available to the school or LA for that child - so the LA doesn’t have the funds to provide private tutoring for the child.
It’s not just private school children who don’t get council-funded therapies. It’s also home educated children, and often even state school children who attend a school that’s over the borough boundary.
Though at one point Hampshire was paying for home educated children to sit exams - but no longer.
And right on queue @lbc.co.uk radio Nick Ferrari spreading the lies about SEN provision. They even shoehorned in the Reform buzz words 'Two teir' into the chat.
You understand 100% accurately. But this isn't about facts. This is about a lie being half way round the world before the truth has its shoes on. This will now be repeated by indoctrinated reform voters to fule anger and grievance. That's what the objective is. Job done.
I guess the same would be true for people who home school, no matter their income.
Thanks for your reply and I totally get your over all point. Apology accepted. It just seems mean for parents in that position. It would probably cost more to administer this than to give the tuition (but that’s not a first).
I don't think you understand how much it costs to have a teacher working 1-2-1 with a student.
I do of course understand. They are not necessarily working 1:1, they more often work in small groups. Notwithstanding this, I don’t see why they are necessarily excluded. I understand how the current system works and that the last Tory government brought that in. Doesn’t have to be that way.
The tutoring is 1-2-1. Small group work was more usual when there were in hospital education units. Then it didn't matter if 1 more child joined, regardless of school.
That would be something else ended by the Tories wouldn't it?
So, blame the Tories for this bit of class war nonsense
I agree. Hospital tuition and speech therapy aren't provided by schools, so the type of school attended should be irrelevant. As should artifical divisions between parts of the state.
So you've literally got an MP on the Health and Social Care select committee spreading lies about the outcome of Tory legislation. FFS.
Is it too much to expect MPs to research facts, especially when in the party that introduced the system, before spreading incorrect information?
'There is clearly a two-tier system in place'... Yep, one's state education, the other's private. What she wants, it seems, is have a private education for her child and for the state to take up the slack. Sorry, but if you opt out, you opt out.
Well, no, you wouldn't have thought that the Mail might have done that. One might have thought it of a real newspaper. If there still were any.
But she doesn't mind a 2 tier education system!
But two tier good when it's in her favour (school)?
Of course they know and understand. But it is an opportunity to lie to the public (who do not understand) and so the DM and Tories will take it.
Were any of the named Tory MPs in Parliament when this was voted on? It would not be the first time a Tory has complained about a law they personally voted for. www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/nigel-ev...
It was obviously a nonsensical story