SEND mum Jade Ullrich at the Every Pair Tells a Story protest in Truro

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00:00So Jay, tell me why you're here today and why it's important to you.

00:04I went through years and years and years of challenging the council to support my son

00:10alongside his schools.

00:13We went through suspensions, labelled as bad behaviour, we went through a Send 4A tribunal

00:19which was about 12 months of gruelling, horrible hard work, having to educate yourself on laws

00:25that you have no idea of as a parent and his needs were unmet, they continued to be unmet

00:33until the end of his education, he was left with barely any GCSEs and the constant phrase

00:38that we used to hear was reasonable adjustments, we're doing just enough and that isn't enough

00:43and that's why we're here today.

00:45So how important do you think this is, the sort of thing you're doing here with all the

00:49pairs of shoes, it brings that sort of human element?

00:53I think representing how many children have been failed and there will be more, there

00:57are so many more across the country, they're not doing enough and I think that a movement

01:01like this, it helps amplify the frustrations of parents across the county, across the nation

01:08that feel like we've been let down, there are thousands and thousands of children that we

01:12are speaking for today because they can't and that's so important to come together with that.

01:17And you're doing this right because you're doing it, there are a lot to talk about it, there's

01:24a lot of people saying that, but they are not doing it, but I don't know, if they do not

01:26work.

01:27Some people are not doing it, but I don't know, if they ask them exactly, but they have

01:29some people saying that, most of them are making the difference so they have the US

01:30that they do not do.

01:32Maybe it's a bit of a problem to think about it, not being a problem to think about it, but

01:37I wonder if you can see the shoes rise in the shoes that must be organised.

01:44Oh, are you on?

01:49Yeah.

01:50They don't actually just feel like a boy.

01:52They're just like a little joke.

01:54My parents use that to me all the time.

01:56So, you are for the old school.

01:58Have you got space for two more shoes?

02:02Was it a good joke?

02:04I do it to my kids all the time.

02:07Look, I'm off.

02:10It took another while.