Extraordinary Links

18/03/2026

18/03/2026

Different isn’t less 💙

This Neurodiversity Week, we’re celebrating the strengths, perspectives, and potential of neurodivergent people.

At Extraordinary Links, we see every day what happens when people feel understood and supported.

Let’s move beyond awareness — and build real acceptance.

18/03/2026

Different isn’t less 💙

This Neurodiversity Week, we’re celebrating the strengths, perspectives, and potential of neurodivergent people.

At Extraordinary Links, we see every day what happens when people feel understood and supported.

Let’s move beyond awareness — and build real acceptance.

23/02/2026

SEND Reform 2026 promises earlier support, fewer EHCP battles and £4bn investment. However, without real school capacity, a specialist workforce plan and enforceable rights, reform risks becoming a reshuffle rather than a reset. Implementation will decide everything.
You can read more of our thoughts on the white paper here

Review of SEND white paper 2026

28/01/2026

🎉 Six years today! Extraordinary Links is officially 6. Huge thanks to every one of you for showing up, speaking up, and keeping this community strong. We couldn’t do this without you 💛

04/01/2026

💛 A huge thank you to our amazing supporters! 💛

Did you know you can raise money for Extraordinary Links without spending a penny extra? Yep—zero. Nada. Zilch.

If you shop online (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?), simply sign up to easyfundraising. Thousands of retailers will donate to us every time you shop—at no extra cost to you. It’s basically kindness on autopilot.

✨ Even better? Every penny raised goes straight back into supporting families through our groups and events. We have no wage costs at all—we’re 100% volunteer-led—so your support goes exactly where it’s needed most.

Shop as usual. Do good effortlessly. Feel quietly heroic. 💪💛

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Thank you for being part of our community.

12/12/2025

This prize draw is to support the work of Extraordinary Links, the charity for SEN and Disabled children and their families.

03/12/2025

The Department for Education has released further dates in its series of ‘SEND engagement’ events - launching a new “SEND reform national conversation” just weeks before the White Paper on SEND reform is expected early next year.

Most of the in-person sessions are already fully booked, and the newly added online events each focus on one of the Government’s recently announced “five principles” for reform. An online form is also available for submitting views.

While it is important that the Government is open to hearing the views of parents and carers, with the White Paper now imminent it is difficult to see how engagement at this stage could meaningfully influence proposals that are likely already well developed.

In our recent letter to the Education Secretary, we also highlighted that while the Government’s “five principles” are important, they are already reflected in existing SEND law and statutory guidance. What is missing are the principles of legal entitlement and enforceable accountability, which are both essential to making the system work for children, young people and their families.

🔗Register for the engagement events, or submit your views online, via the links we've posted in the comments.