Blog archive for Campaigning articles
Draft Green Paper on SEN - 27 June 2011
Observations on the shortcomings in the draft Green Paper, which in my view need addressing.
It makes my blood boil that so many normal children are deemed to have special needs - 29 July 2010
The Daily Mail, 29 July 2010
More and more children, we were told this week, are being diagnosed with some sort of educational special needs. Little Johnny doesn't read well? Must be dyslexia. Sweet Sophie won't sit still? Must be attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Badly behaved? Could be conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder - syndromes I thought were made up until I read about them in this week's newspapers.
Dr Rake should live on a sink estate for a year - 1 December 2009
Dr Rake should live on a sink estate for a year
Commentary by Rosa Monckton
Daily Mail, Tuesday 1 December 2009
When love is not enough: The joy and hardship in caring for a disabled child - 9 November 2009
The Mail
It's the hardest job in the world, but parents caring for disabled children face a shameful lack of support. And, says ROSA MONCKTON, whose daughter has Down's, it's driving some to breaking point - and even murder.
The woman who is standing up to feral thugs - 4 October 2009
The Sunday Times, 4 October 2009
The revelation of official ineptitude over the hounding to death of Fiona Pilkington and her profoundly disabled daughter came as no shock to me, because I have met Asher Nardone and her two sons.
Exposing Europe's guilty secret: the incarcerated children of Bulgaria - 13 February 2009
The Times, 13 February 2009
It is the smell that assaults you - filthy nappies, unwashed babies, rotting flesh. Then you are hit by the silence, an eerie, unnatural silence, the silence of babies who have given up hope of ever being consoled, cuddled or comforted. It is the dreadful quiet of starving, neglected, unloved children waiting to die.
Why I'm haunted by these neglected orphans that Bulgaria and the world has forgotten - 6 November 2008
Daily Mail, 6 November 2008
ROSA MONCKTON sends a heart-rending dispatch from the Bulgarian orphanages that shame Europe
Yes, it was an evil act and she deserved to be punished. So why do I feel so sorry for the mother who drowned little Naomi? - 24 September 2008
The Daily Mail, 24 September 2008
Guilty: Joanne Hill was jailed for life for drowning her four-year-old daughter Naomi in the bath because she was ashamed of her disability.
My Down's daughter changed my life - 14 November 2007
The other morning Rosa Monckton came downstairs to a scene of devastation in the kitchen.
Her 12-year-old daughter Domenica was covered in egg, cheese, milk, marmite and peanut butter which she'd tried to mix in a bowl to make a midnight snack.
"I have been like Auntie Nigella," Domenica triumphantly told her mother, "I couldn't sleep so I thought I should come downstairs and make myself something."
They'd watched Auntie Nigella - celebrity chef Nigella Lawson to you and me - on television the night before.
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