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Dan Paskins

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Save the Children UK Exec Director - UK Impact Vice-Chair, End Child Poverty Chair, Civic Power Fund

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 17h
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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National Children's Bureau @ncb.org.uk · 02/10/2026
What happens in a baby's first thousand days shapes their health, learning, and relationships for years to come. Every family deserves support with their care in those early months, no matter where they live. Read more about new commitments for babies, families and social care lnkd.in/e5gb-VNy
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know what Ipswich. Big respect for this 🚜
Image: a picture of various blue stim toys on a blue football stadium seat with a blue Ipswich Town drawstring bag 
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To mark the start of Sensory Processing
Awareness Month and ADHD Awareness Month, we are pleased to launch our brand new 'build your own' sensory packs.
Packs are now from the online store, with more info available on the club app and website.
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Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Correct, Jurgen.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/10/2026
The gap between the support low-income private tenants can get and market rents in their area has now reached 21%. It's approaching the record gap of 23% when support was last increased in 2024, but the government has given no plans to increase support until 2030.
Chart showing gap between support provided to lower income private tenants and the estimated percentile level
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lovely story here for those who need one. 🐿️
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Save the Children NI @savethechildrenni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It didn’t make headlines but this week Stormont's Department for Communities provided an update on the Anti-Poverty Strategy. They said the Minister is committed to creating a more ambitious strategy. Along with many others we've been calling for leadership on child poverty so we wanted to respond:
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇
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Relationships Project @rshipsproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Paul Stepczak created the ‘Do With, Not To’ scorecard tool for public services and private companies to evaluate their progress in working alongside communities to make a real difference. Get stuck in: padlet.com/paulstepczak...
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"Do With, Not To" Scorecard (Excel Version)
Feel free to download and complete the assessment. I've also created digital versions that will send you a PDF report: bit.ly/DoWithNotToScorecard (36 Question 'Deep Dive') bit.ly/DoWithNotToLite…
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The PM’s thinking about the long term is crucial but action is also urgently needed to remove millions of children from poverty now.
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Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good to hear the Prime Minister saying to @bbclaurak.bsky.social that crude cuts to welfare just push costs elsewhere, and the problems we need to address are the economic failures that put pressure on our social security system. He’s right about this.
Screen shot of Andy Burnham being interviewed by Laura Kunnesberg
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
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Power to Change @powertochange.org.uk · 24/09/2026
5 practical steps for govt to unlock a resilient high street that goes beyond retail: 1️⃣ Tackle vacancy through new ownership models 2️⃣ Support councils to use existing powers 3️⃣ Improve data transparency 4️⃣ Reform meanwhile-use 5️⃣ Help communities move from temporary to long-term use 👇️ buff.ly/wxV1j8d
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Briefing: The civic high street - Power to Change
Our civic high street briefing offers recommendations for how government can deliver a transformative High Street Strategy, using policy and investment to d ...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BlueSky doesn't need this reminder but remember that Headroom is, roughly, the difference between: - est. revenues a few years out, a >£trillion number - est. spending, similar - removing capital, a semi artificial construct - divided by GDP, Ditto - taken from a self-imposed allowable amount
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Which would you choose? 🏚️Pay the rent. 🍊Put food on the table. ♨️Heat your home. The bleak choice facing many private renters. Because LHA has fallen far below rents & is frozen. @trusselluk.bsky.social are asking the Prime Minister to act this Autumn. action.trussell.org.uk/local-housin...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's much that can be criticised about Suella's mad position, but nobody who thinks this actually 'supports the England football team'.
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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 23/09/2026
Looking for a podcast recommendation? 🎧 The We Society podcast brings together leading thinkers, researchers & policymakers to tackle some of the biggest questions facing society today, from education & child poverty to AI, inequality & public services. 👉 acss.org.uk/we-society-podcast
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The first benefit cap stats have been published since the 2-child limit was scrapped. 165,000 families - containing over 370,000 children - are now hit by the benefit cap. That’s 50,000 more families than before. 1/4
Chart from the DWP showing the number of benefit capped households in Great Britain over time. It shows that 164,000 families receiving Universal Credit were affected by the benefit cap in May 2026, up from 115,000 families in February 2026. (These figures are slightly different from those quoted in this post because we have added the separate benefit cap statistics for Northern Ireland into the DWP’s statistics for Great Britain.)
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Andrew Harrop @andrewharrop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Threading the needle on the Triple Lock. My new thing for @labourlist.bsky.social calls on John Healey to pre-announce an end to the Triple Lock in the 2030s Both to sort the politics, and because it’s the right policy for fighting poverty labourlist.org/2026/09/end-...
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'End the triple lock – just not yet' - LabourList
By pre-announcing an end to the triple lock in the 2030s, John Healey can make a Labour case as to what it was for and why it should end.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Life's overwhelming enough, what with the far right's nihilism pushed down our throats. We don't need progressives doing the same. We're supposed to believe in the power of human agency. the constant doomerism on climate and AI just makes people feel worse. We have to show there is hope.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Does anyone else suspect that their children are shills for Big Snack? I swear 90% of my wage goes towards snacks, but yet the snacks are always wrong, engendering a need for more snacks, which are also wrong
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 21/09/2026
The gap between the support low-income private tenants can get and market rents in their area has now reached 21%. It's approaching the record gap of 23% when support was last increased in 2024, but the government has given no plans to increase support until 2030.
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Save the Children US @savethechildren.org · 21/09/2026
Every child should have the freedom to dream about their future, not worry about whether they’ll see their loved ones again. This #WorldPeaceDay, listen to children from Yemen, Lebanon and Ukraine share their hopes for peace. Every child deserves to live in peace. ❤️
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Local Housing Allowance, the cap on housing support that helps 1.9 million low-income private renting families, has been frozen since April 2024. Rents haven't. The gap between rents and support hits a record this October. Our new spotlight shows why the Budget should end the freeze 🧵
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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a really interesting thread
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Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Grim, but extremely important www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
18 years after the party conference that birthed the policy, allow me to repost my 2014 oped attacking the politically pointless policy of supposedly progressive parties raising the income tax threshold- giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Tax cuts are exactly what the UK doesn’t need
The financial crisis turned a smart idea into a regressive own goal, writes Giles Wilkes
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘The report is expected to say that there is no direct evidence of widespread overdiagnosis of autism and ADHD in Britain’ Preview of what is expected in the independent review led by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Peter Fonagy liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/476...
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ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find
Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain
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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
John Rentoul, 2017: when people call me a vampire I grow a little stronger John Rentoul, 2026: we should abandon net zero and show true climate leadership by dimming the sun
Journalist John Rentoul says that when people call him a vampire he grows stronger
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's our shameless take on things you wouldn't do as an ally to blind and partially sighted people 👀 What else wouldn't you do?
"You wouldn't pet a working guide dog" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with an icon of a guide dog below."You wouldn't say 'over there' as a direction to a blind person" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with arrows pointing in lots of different directions below.
"You wouldn't jump over a blind person's cane" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with an icon of a person using a white cane."You wouldn't forget to add alt text to your pictures" in the famous font from the early 2000s anti-piracy campaign we all had to sit through at the beginning of any VHS tape, with the alt text icon below.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Govt should prioritise every option that is "more control, less controversy" and deprioritise any performative options that lead to Controversy Without Control. We had 6 years of Controversy Without Control. Lets prioritise actual workable control > controversy
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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a really exciting job opportunity - Coalition Manager for the End Child Poverty Coalition cpag.org.uk/jobs/current...
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End Child Poverty Coalition Manager
Vacancy for Head of Strategic Litigation at CPAG.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That’s why JRF is calling for a new approach, that treats social infrastructure as essential and not a ‘nice to have’ for a select few areas. Read the report here: www.jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoo...
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Essential but unequal: the need for social infrastructure in every place
Why we need a bold offer for community spaces, groups and activities to reverse decline and tackle double disadvantage in neighbourhoods across England.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The triple lock is a catch up mechanism and I don't think the basic pension has caught up yet. In the long run it is a benefit to the currently young. What a government could do to stop the endless cycle of speculation is define the "caught up" position and wait for that.
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Rob de Vries @rob-devries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@benbgeiger.bsky.social and my report for BSA on attitudes to disabiltiy benefits is out today. Basic message: politicians shouldn't assume that there is a strong public appetite for cuts to disability benefits natcen.ac.uk/publications...
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BSA 43 | Attitudes to welfare | National Centre for Social Research
This chapter analyses public attitudes towards spending on disability benefits and relevant trends in attitudes to welfare spending more broadly.
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Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We’ve seen this movie before. It ends with homelessness, Temporary Accommodation costs crippling local councils, renters in severe financial hardship. That this can be done without huge social damage is the politics of wishful thinking.
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is brilliant and I agree. But all the migrant orgs who have been attacked for the last 5 years - physically, digitally, daily, also deserve to be thanked. We are providing homelessness/ domestic violence services, education, arts, mental health support, welfare etc. It is vital public service.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Save the Children US @savethechildren.org · 08/09/2026
Every child deserves the opportunity to learn and thrive. Tomorrow, Save the Children launches a major new initiative to break down barriers for millions of kids who lack access to the educational resources they need. Find out tomorrow how you can help them succeed on our Day of Action and Giving!
An image of a child reading a book with text that reads "A Launch to Lift the Limits" and the Learn Without Limits logo.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Well as you know I would restore the generosity of the tax credit system for young workers *with children*. But state pension is half the minimum wage for a full time worker!
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Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Beautiful, humane and unbearably moving by Gaby Hinsliff www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Losing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby Hinsliff
There’ll be exhaustion, love tinged with occasional rage, even moments of black humour. But my mum would want me to tell you: don’t be afraid, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Have been reading more about this stuff, and think this was next door to where my Nana used to live www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man in court after tractor rammed into Middlesbrough house
Nathan Blagg stands accused after a property was damaged in Middlesbrough in May.
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Tom Baker @mrtombaker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
‘The next right-wing talking point is already online. We must learn to spot it early' Insightful read from @ippr.org Liam Evans >> labourlist.org/2026/08/poli...
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'The next right-wing talking point is already online. We must learn to spot it early' - LabourList
If politics is increasingly downstream of the internet, we should spend more time looking upstream.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
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Save the Children US @savethechildren.org · 31/08/2026
NEWS: Children at Risk of Disease as Families Struggle to Access Clean Water in #Nepal Read the full press release: bit.ly/45ZUoNL
Save the Children 'Press Release' banner, with the Save the Children logo at the top and the website 'SavetheChildren.org' at the bottom. Text reads: "Children at Risk of Disease as Families Struggle to Access Clean Water in Nepal"
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I am annoyed that this is now my most popular post here on Bluesky. If you want more, I wrote a book about scientific racism called How to Argue With a Racist, and another one called Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics. www.adamrutherford.com/allbooks
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All — Adam Rutherford
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