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Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#Oliverscampaign ‘Alarm bells were going off’: parents tell of ordeal at Send school closed down after abuse allegations www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘Alarm bells were going off’: parents tell of ordeal at Send school closed down after abuse allegations
Annette and Kevin Maxwell say children with special needs have become moneymaking tool for private companies
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Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
#Oliverscampaign I am shocked & horrified that yet again children with learning disabilities have been subjected to horrific abuse What does this say about our country about how we value, protect, and uphold the lives of children with a learning disability www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Investigation into abuse at Doncaster children's homes closed
A police investigation into child abuse has ended without any staff being charged or arrested.
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Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 09/02/2026
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
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‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Is mental health 'awareness' backfiring? theneuroscienceofeve... Some analysis of the data which suggests that mental health awareness campaigns aren't having uniformly positive outcomes for those they're meant to be helping. #MentalHealth #Awareness #Data
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Is mental health 'awareness' backfiring?
It's mental health awareness week, again. But the latest data shows that mental health stigma is increasing, not decreasing. What's going on there? And has mental health awareness gone 'too far'?
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KMB @karynberrisford.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"If you haven't got a support network, it's an incredibly stressful, difficult time."
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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Nobody signed up for THIS.
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Nobody signed up for THIS.
Now feel free to judge but I can recall with stark clarity muttering under my breath;
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/06/2025
Carers like me connect patients and doctors – so why are we so often made to feel invisible? | Emily Kenway
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Carers like me connect patients and doctors – so why are we so often made to feel invisible? | Emily Kenway
People looking after loved ones struggle to be heard by health professionals. Yet without us, the system would collapse, says author Emily Kenway
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KMB @karynberrisford.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hard relate.
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KMB @karynberrisford.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"The fact is that, in the UK, there simply aren’t enough homes that prioritise disability".
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Let’s get this Petition over the finish line—just 13k short of the 100,000 for a parliamentary debate: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND petition.parliament.uk/petit...
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Petition: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND
Support in education is a vital legal right of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We ask the government to commit to maintaining the existing law, so that vulnerable children with SEND can access education and achieve their potential.
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KMB @karynberrisford.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘It broke my heart’: the adopters forced to return their child to care after struggling alone
A crisis in post-adoption support in England means parents feel punished rather than helped when things go wrong
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Rich Warner @rgwarner.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“The system isn’t working so let’s get rid of it completely” This is sickening. @jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social, Derbyshire takes *years* to process an EHCP. We now have Reform threatening provision and, shockingly, your government. Why attack vulnerable children like this?
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
And, you know, this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Alasdair MacLullich @amaclullich.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Pain can present as agitation in delirium—assess and treat appropriately. Haloperidol is a poor analgesic.
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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On the 24th April at 8pm online I'm presenting my findings from my The Churchill Fellowship study into models of support for adoptive and kinship families. #CCVAB #CPV #CPVA Book here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1258791211....
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FASD Ireland @fasdireland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
FASD in the news: Irish Examiner: Silent epidemic of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder 'coming down the road at us fast and furiously' You can read the full article here: www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Silent epidemic of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder 'coming down the road at us fast and furiously'
Advocates call on Government to recognise the condition, which can lead to ADHD and learning difficulties, as a disability
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Jane Callaghan @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is a tough read. academic.oup.com/bjc/article/...
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‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care
Abstract. Drawing on recent criminological scholarship on child to parent violence (CPV), this article applies a feminist ‘ethics of care’ framework to und
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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In Northumberland we had the domestic homicide review of 'Sarah'. I sat in a meeting within months of that and the social care team looking to help us were oblivious to it. There can't be enough publicity around this issue that families face. #cpv #ccvab www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Northumberland mother 'begged for help' with her son's violence
A Northumberland mother says support is needed for parents abused by children with additional needs.
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KMB @karynberrisford.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Such a gorgeous piece. As the mum of a son with SEND, I often feel like I live in a parallel universe to parents of neurotypical children. This piece really captures how joyous the triumphs are. Can't wait to read the book.
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Ivana @iviva.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Excellent reading about the cult of Gabor Mate and #trauma. "Western societies have increasingly medicalized suffering, replacing concepts like personal responsibility and agency with narratives of victimhood." afurtherinquiry.substack.com/p/the-cult-o... #TherapistSky #PsySciSky
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The Cult of Gabor Maté: Trauma, Science, and the Rise of Therapeutic Politics
Gabor Maté has built an empire on a simple premise: trauma explains everything.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It seems feminism has lurched back 40yrs at #BRITs2025. Sabrina Carpenter & all her mates opening the show by opening their legs 😬. Bit unecessary and not great for young girls watching their role model 🤔. #TheBRITAwards www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/b...
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BRITs fans speechless over Sabrina Carpenter's racy pre-watershed performance
Sabrina Carpenter took to the stage this evening at the BRIT Awards to perform her most popular tracks after collecting the Global Success Award at the event
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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:
Statement Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
An owl handler I met (although not the one in my anecdote) with his beautiful owl.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/01/2025
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
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A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone Last September, I received an email from a reader called Rosy. At just 53, motor neurone disease meant Rosy was losing her body as she knew it,…
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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Repost for a chance to win two tickets for our extra date with Helen O Hara and the RNCM Session Orchestra Tickets on sale this Thursday (9th Jan) at 10am - no more dates to be added after this, so jump in quick 😉 Winner picked at random at 9am Thursday morning
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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Re-post for a chance to win this brilliant prize: 2 x tickets to the show A room at Leven (liveleven.com) 2 x return train tickets from anywhere in the UK I’ll present you with a signed print after the concert Winner picked at random: THURSDAY 3pm Tickets on sale: THURSDAY 4pm
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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Repost for a chance to win this Charlatans bobble hat Might as well kick things off with a gift - winner picked at 9pm this Sunday
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