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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@ehdc-cllr-dave.bsky.social. If you would like to end discrimination against the poor and end class discrimination sign, share widely on your social media accounts this formal petition to parliament petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... You can also access it at @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.soc

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Make social class a protected characteristic under the Equality Act

The government should amend the Equality Act 2010 and make social class a protected characteristic.

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Use your voice to tell parliament to ban discrimination against the poor and class discrimination. Sign, share widely on your social media accounts with family and friends so you can help end prejudice against the poor. Also send to your mp and councillors petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today is the UN Children’s Day bsky.app/profile/just...

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Save the date! Rachel O’Connor will be giving a seminar for the Alliance of Working Class Academics Worldwide ‘Disrupting the Load of Imposter Work: Empowering Working Class Students from within the Ivory Tower.’ Chair - Geraldine Van Bueren. 6 November at 6.30pm uk time. Zoom details to follow

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

EU’s latest report Working for Children Matters: within the European Union child poverty decreased slightly in 2024 to 24.1% but is higher than poverty for the total population which is 20.9%. Without the incorporation of socio-economic rights poverty unlikely to reduce substantially.

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

91% of working class students report experiencing culture shock at university - many feel excluded. The University Code on Equal Opportunity for Working Class Students and Academics www.workingclassacademics.com/universitycode shows how universities can overcome class bias in staff and students

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University Code — Alliance of Working Class Academics Worldwide

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Critics of paid working class internships miss the point. It will not be self-defined but available to those whose parents were working class when the candidate was 14. Fewer than one in five senior civil servants come from a working class background - the percentage is less than it was in 1967!

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The welcome announcement that uk civil service internships will be open only to working class students will have major implications for policy, which will reflect more the views of a rich and diverse working class with direct experience of having less www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Civil service interns must all be working class, government says

Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

UCL’s Next Steps Study shows that ‘social and economic resources play a more pronounced role in buffering the mental health challenges associated with raising children’ The impact of socio-economic disadvantage and mental health needs to be given a higher priority in government policy.

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

One of the many challenges of working class families is being able to afford food. Worrying about having enough food can lead to food disorders in adolescents. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... A right to food is overdue in the UK and was a right we once had ukhumanrightsblog.com/2013/10/18/s...

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Should we have an enforceable right to food? - Professor Geraldine van Bueren Q.C. - UK Human Rights Blog

People are going hungry in England because England, to the detriment of the poor, has forgotten its legal history. Nearly eight hundred years ago, in 1216 English law first recognized a right to food....

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Groundbreaking issue Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. Articles from Alliance of Working Class Academics Worldwide and National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice search.informit.org/toc/jaiis/28.... Should help change negative false images of working class and indigenous peoples.

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I spoke at the Education Dept’s interesting initiative on social mobility. Much needed. Astonishingly across the civil service there’s been a decrease in Senior Civil Servants from working class backgrounds. In 1967 it 19%, in 2021 it was 18%. Another reason to make class discrimination illegal.

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geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social @geraldinevanbueren.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Those advocating for greater equality may be interested in my study of the ignored intersection between class, indigenous peoples and race. See the link below search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

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