Leaning into her Personality

The Sovereign Hub Podcast · Aug 26, 2026 · 32m

Somewhere inside a council, a woman whose job was to assess support applications for children with additional needs was given an instruction. ‘Turn down 98 out of every 100.’Jess Rad heard that first-hand, from an advocate she paid to help her fight for her own daughter. It took Jess three attempts to secure an EHCP, the legal document that guarantees a child support at school. She did it alone, papers covering the floor, a process she compares to writing a dissertation on a topic nobody would choose. She calls the system a sieve: it filters for whoever has the tenacity, the time, the energy…