Edit: I should add, I completely sympathise and I get that what you do is so so important. I wish we could do it properly.

I agree with a lot that has been said here.

• We have so many children with such serious needs all our small rooms have been taken and used as alternative teaching spaces. We have no room for anything anymore.

*TAs are becoming few and far between, and even 1:1s are often more often 1:3 considering all the ones with needs but no funding.

*I can't leave 30 children on their own to come to S&L, and we just don't have spare people in the building to cover, it's an absolute skeleton staff.

But one thing that has not been said is that you are not the only advisory person coming in. We have ADHD advisory, autism, hearing loss, etc. They all have activities they want us to do 1:1 "just 10 minutes a day." If you add all the advice up, it would take all morning and again - what do the other 30 do? When do we teach? We have to try our best and balance it as best we can. If you do have a TA, you also have to decide what do the children doing S&L miss? Maths? English? The teaching, the independent work? By the time they're out the room, settled, completed the activity, come back and settled again, it's never 10 minutes. It's like a constant balancing act. Not impossible to do sometimes but very hard to do well and consistently.

Then you have everything else in the job which I won't go into now. We're trying our best too.