Aaron King

Aaron King

@9000lives.org

Inclusion | SEND | Schools Be kind, even if someone's different to you. 98% positive. Yorkshire. #Edusky #SENDSky #Inclusion www.9000lives.org/edu-blog/

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Aaron King
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If you want better inclusion in your mainstream school, there's a free Inclusion Strategy template that completes the compliance so that school leaders can focus on matters. It's in the free Inclusive Mainstream Fund Guide download bit.ly/4yiHVBk Please share #Inclusion

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REACH School
@reachschool.bsky.social

As part of our Careers curriculum, we had a great day at the Springboard Hospitality Takeover Day at The Belfry today. Students spent the day trying new things, asking questions, meeting employers and discovering careers they didn't even know existed! #weareREACH

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ICYMI The practical and straightforward guide to your school leadership team's first inclusion strategy. #UKed #EduSky #InclusionStrategy

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On a personal note, she also brought the story of a family member's traumatic experience in childbirth to a national audience. That mattered. A lot.

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"Can I ask is there anyone her tonight who owes their life to Sir Nicholas Winton? If there are, can you please stand up." <Four rows stand> Journalism at its very finest.💫

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This churchyard in Sheffield is a window into ‘inclusion’ in the past. There are 2,500 unmarked graves of patients at the Wadsley Lunatic Asylum (that was actually its name). The long dry summer of 2026 meant that this year, their graves could be seen – normally, it just looks like an empty field.

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It’s important to remain humble. Inclusion changes. No one can stay ahead of every change. That’s nothing to worry about if you are open-minded to change.

Aaron King
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After all, who wants to be a modern-day equivalent of the Doctor admitting women into an asylum for the reason of menopause?

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

This churchyard in Sheffield is a window into ‘inclusion’ in the past. There are 2,500 unmarked graves of patients at the Wadsley Lunatic Asylum (that was actually its name). The long dry summer of 2026 meant that this year, their graves could be seen – normally, it just looks like an empty field.

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The bigger lesson is that how a society cares for disabled people will always change. In future, people will look at our approaches and gasp. Society learns and moves forward.

Aaron King
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How society supports disabilities now is based on the knowledge we have right now. In future, maybe we will gasp whether we under-recognised or over-recognised trauma... We just don’t know until tomorrow.

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

This churchyard in Sheffield is a window into ‘inclusion’ in the past. There are 2,500 unmarked graves of patients at the Wadsley Lunatic Asylum (that was actually its name). The long dry summer of 2026 meant that this year, their graves could be seen – normally, it just looks like an empty field.

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Other patients were admitted due to quarrelling, greed and disappointing marriages. Being ‘sent to Wadsley’ for being a quarrelsome wife must have been a pretty brutal life event. However, this isn’t just “Weren’t we bad in the old days.”

Aaron King
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Asylum staff were probably doing their best with the best knowledge they had at the time. Wadsley asylum had inspections by Commissioners in Lunacy, who visited in 1867. These experts praised the Saturday night dances, picnics to Wakefield, and noted that restraint had only been used once that year.

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

This churchyard in Sheffield is a window into ‘inclusion’ in the past. There are 2,500 unmarked graves of patients at the Wadsley Lunatic Asylum (that was actually its name). The long dry summer of 2026 meant that this year, their graves could be seen – normally, it just looks like an empty field.

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

There were many ways to end up in the asylum. Whilst many patients were discharged, many died there. Sarah Helliwell was admitted because she had ‘change of life’ (i.e. menopause). She died at 55, having had 2.5 years of asylum treatment for her menopause.

Aaron King
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Charles Sanderson was a solicitor until who was admitted for dementia. He was 34. His record shows that his dementia began aged 18. That means that it was probably not dementia (e.g. could have been epilepsy, brain injury, or even depression). Charles then spent 35 years in the asylum.

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

Inclusion Strategies are here. Mainstream schools must publish their first one by 31st Dec. These are a brand new plans for leadership teams. The strategy outlines how they will spend their Inclusive Mainstream Fund (IMF) grant. Helpfully, there's now the Ultimate Guide to the IMF. bit.ly/4yiHVBk

bit.lyUltimate Inclusive Mainstream Fund Toolkit – Your free step-by-step guideOur free Ultimate Inclusive Mainstream Fund Toolkit turns a daunting new statutory duty into a manageable, step-by-step process...
Aaron King
@9000lives.org

PSA: I put free inclusion advice on LinkedIn. You can search for 'Aaron King Inclusion' to find me. I've been explaining SEND reform on there for some months and am happy to connect with other educators. #UkEd #EduSky

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GCSE results day! 💫 Congratulations to everyone who'll be celebrating. 💫 If you're a parent, here's how grades translate.

Aaron King
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💫 16 year olds, GCSE results day is here - Well done for your efforts! - Didn't go as you hoped? Think about apprenticeships. - Did go as you hoped? Think about apprenticeships.

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💫 A Levels! Well done for your efforts. 💫 - Didn't go as you hoped? Think about apprenticeships. - Did go as you hoped? Think about apprenticeships.

Aaron King
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1. The mammal with the biggest heart relative to its body is the shrew. 2. Inclusion begins in the heart. 3. Maybe we should try to be a bit more shrew.

Aaron King
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It normally takes several days to appoint non-cabinet ministers. By the end of the week, we should know who has Early Years and Social Care briefs. For now, it's anyone's guess if Olivia Bailey and Josh MacAlister will return to DfE. If they do not return, both will have left after 10 months.

Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social

The new ministerial team at the DfE is taking shape following the appointment of Lucy Powell as education secretary – but who are her junior ministers? @cerysturner.bsky.social reports

tes.comPowell’s DfE team: the ministers confirmed so farThe DfE team has been reshuffled, with Lucy Powell now taking the helm as education secretary. But who are her junior ministers?

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Laura McInerney
@missmc.bsky.social

If you’d like to know more background about Lucy Powell we did a profile on her in Schools Week ten years ago when she was shadow Ed Sec. schoolsweek.co.uk/lucy-powell/

schoolsweek.co.ukLucy Powell, shadow education secretaryFor someone who by her own admission 'hardly knows' Jeremy Corbyn, you can imagine Lucy Powell’s surprise when she was offered the position of shadow education secretary
Laura McInerney@missmc.bsky.social

The most important fact about Lucy Powell is that she has the same birthday as me ☺️ (She is the second Ed Sec to do so. The other being Nicky Morgan who was Ed Sec when Lucy was the shadow!)

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

No announcement yet over who will lead education in Burnham's government. Bridget Phillipson? Lisa Nandy? Helen Hayes? Wes Streeting? #UkEd

Aaron King
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Duke of Edinburgh Awards have been enriching lives since 1956! That is awesome.

Munira Wilson MP@munirawilson.bsky.social

Happy 70th Birthday to @dofe.org ! 🎉 Huge congratulations to everyone who’s completed their Bronze, Silver or Gold Award, and an even bigger congratulations to the teachers who willingly spend nights in tents and weekends on expeditions. Couldn’t be me! 😅

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I saw the most glorious line ever in an Ofsted report. I had to zoom in and read it twice. It's for a fabulous local college.

Aaron King
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Saw this suggested for schools, but reckon it fits most workplaces? Friction distracts, slows and can waste energy. #UKEd #EduSky

Aaron King
@9000lives.org

I saw the most glorious line ever in an Ofsted report. I had to zoom in and read it twice. It's for a fabulous local college.