Simon Knight

Spent a summer working on the coffee packing line whilst back from Uni. It has a profound impact on me in all sorts of ways and I remember the experience fondly. Will be interesting to see what they do with the site.

Oxford Clarion

Banbury’s coffee factory, a major employer and an olfactory contributor to the town since 1964, closed today. Built by General Foods and latterly known for Kenco coffee, the plant was taken over by JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in 2015, and had been downgraded to a packing operation since 2023.

Simon Knight

28 июл., 13:27

There is something very very wrong with our country & the culture that allows situations like this to occur time & time again. The ease with which those with learning disabilities are treated with appalling disregard for their inherent humanity is a stain on our society that we do little to address.

Daniel Hewitt

🔺 A sword, cocaine, abuse: Inside 'nightmare' care company for disabled people Our ITV News investigation has uncovered allegations of physical assault, sexual abuse and drug-taking at an award-winning care company for adults with learning disabilities. www.itv.com/news/2026-07...

Simon Knight

27 июл., 21:18

On holiday in France and have just discovered my hair is no longer sufficiently thick enough to prevent my scalp from burning. I do not like getting older, and by all accounts balder. 🥵

Simon Knight

22 июл., 10:21

Me too. She is excellent.

Sam Freedman

Quite relieved by this. Was worried there would be no continuity on special needs reforms.

Simon Knight

22 июл., 08:50

Really hope Georgia continues to hold responsibility for SEND.

Schools Week

Breaking: The schools minister Georgia Gould has been re-appointed as a Department for Education minister in Andy Burnham’s government, with her exact brief unconfirmed schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-mini...

Simon Knight

19 июл., 23:22

This feels like it should be from an Episode of Eurotrash.

Simon Knight

26 июн., 23:42

There is the possibility that The National Inclusion Standards will help with this, and good people are informing it, but the proof will be in the pudding.

Ben Newmark

Also what evidence are we using to intervene? The evidence base for many very common adaptations is shockingly bad. We won't deliver any improvement doing things that don't work. And the white paper has so far done nothing to tackle this.

Simon Knight

26 июн., 23:39

This is an excellent summary. 👇

Stuart Rowntree

1/6 Today’s DfE guidance on inclusion bases matters. It recognises something many mainstream schools already know - that some pupils need more than ordinary classroom adaptation, but still deserve to belong in their local school community.