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Lisa Allen

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Work in data, love the environment (especially finding mushrooms) Interested in tech, open data, open source || Views are mine only

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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 10/01/2026
The 452nd edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs >> newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - 10/01/2026
This is the 452nd edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukesie [01] H...
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 02/01/2026
Right gang - I see some of you have your work brains re-engaged - I'm looking for recommendations of blogposts about why the Service Standard has been so important and how to embed it in a teams ways of working. I have the classics but looking for a refresh for a talk. Thanks and Happy New Year 🥳
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 03/11/2025
🚨 DATA BITES KLAXON 🚨 - Tues 18 Nov, 530 for 6pm - Online & SW1 - Welsh Govt on StatsWales reimagined - Office for Statistics Regulation on the new Code of Practice - GLA on the Data for London Library - ONS on Census 2031 topic consultation and user insight Join us! public.digital/events/data-...
A photo from Data Bites 50 in November 2024, courtesy of Paul Clarke.

Backs of audience heads are visible. On the right of the image, I'm sat at the front with a corner of screen visible. On the left is the iconic Data Bites countdown clock, displaying 04:34
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thanks @jacattell.bsky.social for sharing this video with me m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8j... - love this @jukes.ie
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Matt Jukes: The power, peril and privilege of working in the open
YouTube video by Nexer Digital
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 27/10/2025
Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty @nextcloud.bsky.social nextcloud.com/blog/austria... ditching my US cloud provider too!
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Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty - Nextcloud
Discover why the Austrian Ministry of Economy trusts Nextcloud for secure and digitally sovereign collaboration and data management.
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Ben Proctor @benproctor.co.uk · 18/05/2025
Just in case, for some reason, you are not already signed up to the snappily titled Nonprofit data jobs newsletter... you can view this week's here buttondown.com/likeaword/ar... (and sign up to have it emailed to you in the future)
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Nonprofit data jobs 2025-05-18
Featuring jobs with Birdlife International, AgeUK, Impetus, Wellcome Trust and Natural Resources Wales
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...
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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 13/05/2025
🗣️ Our next Community of Practice speakers are announced! Julian from @opendatamcr.bsky.social on developing principles for putting residents at the heart of how automated decision making is used; and Louise from GDS. 💻 Zoom 🗓️ Wed 14, 2-3pm GMT 🎟️ Free, register: connectedbydata.org/events/2025...
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Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice
On Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 2pm we will hold the eight meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025
Looking for a summer internship? @openuk has a *paid* internship from May-August, for a UK-based intern interested in digital and policy. www.linkedin.com/posts/amandabrockt… Please share 😃
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OpenUK
We are the UK organisation for Open Technology #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #opensource https://openuk.uk/ Join our mailing list at https://openuk.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9d6308e45152bb731122903de&id=34b8a50cce
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Fantastic to attend Women in Data #WID Still amazes me that #data is not routinely split by gender resulting in harms for everyone.
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Big job leading the UK Government's "mission to better use its data as part of the National Data Strategy": Deputy Director, Data Strategy at the Government Digital Service www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... (If you think GDS is the right place to do that.) #datastrategy #govtech
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Amazing to publish our TPR data strategy today #data #Savers #Pensions www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/document-...
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TPR data strategy:  Transforming our data for better saver outcomes
The Pensions Regulator is the regulator of work-based pension schemes in the UK
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Attended an excellent event tonight hosted by startupcoalition.io on Making Open Finance happen. #data #open
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Startup Coalition
We act as a conduit between the startup ecosystem and Westminster, providing translation back-and-forth to accelerate and improve startup-specific policy.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Very useful summary of how the fully open source Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 is beating OpenAI at its own game venturebeat.com/ai/why-every...
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Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The UK AI Opportunity Plan and Gov's response is now live... There's lots to comb through, but a few first thoughts below 🧵(1/8). www.gov.uk/government/p... @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
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AI Opportunities Action Plan: government response
Government response to recommendations set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan and the steps it will take to implement them.
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 07/12/2024
#OpenSource Nerds Assemble! The deadline to submit a CfP for State of Open is *this weekend*. sessionize.com/state-of-ope... State of Open is in London on 4 and 5 February, 2025 - right after #FOSDEM. We're looking for interesting speakers on all topics to do with open technology.
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
📣Job klaxon📣 Another brilliant job in my team. This one is to lead our Data Quality & Requirements team. Come join us! Check out this job at The Pensions Regulator: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40... #data #jobs
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 19/11/2024
Happy Data (Use and Access) Bill Day to all who celebrate! It’s Second Reading in the Lords today – the first chance for peers to debate the detail of the Bill Bill docs from: - Parliament bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825 - Government www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament
Current version of Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] with latest news, sponsors, and progress through Houses
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... (US) Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. – Order on Motion to Dismiss www.courtlistener.com/docket/68290... #genAI #IPlaw #AIlaw #techlaw
The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other copyright owners over the data used to train their generative AI systems. A lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI in December was the first from a media outlet.

Unlike similar lawsuits, Raw Story and AlterNet's complaint accused OpenAI of unlawfully removing their articles' copyright management information (CMI) without arguing that it infringed their copyrights. McMahon agreed with OpenAI that the claims should be dismissed.

"Let us be clear about what is really at stake here," McMahon said. "The alleged injury for which Plaintiffs truly seek redress is not the exclusion of CMI" but the "use of Plaintiffs' articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation."
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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 31/10/2024
#GenerativeAI is impacting on workers now, and increasingly. Our recent Connected Conversations with provocations from @jenitennison.com, Janis Wong, Aparna Surendra and Adio Dinika, discussed #WorkerRights in relation to #data and #AI. connectedbydata.org/events/2024-...
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Connected Conversation: Generative AI and Worker Rights
Across industries, companies are seeking to exploit content generated by their workers past and present to create customised generative AI. The same pattern is appearing across journalism, education, ...
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
At The Pensions Regulator, we’ve published our DDaT Strategy. Take a look 👀 #DDAT #data #digital #tech #opendata www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/media-hub...
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Pensions industry urged to unlock power of digital, data and technology for savers
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is using digital, data and technology to transform itself and industry in a bid to protect savers and drive innovation.
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Fascinating discussion on #PoliticsLive today about the role of #Data and #Analytics in shaping the NHS. Great to hear conversations on data and analytics becoming mainstream
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Looking forward to this event with Data Orchard and seeing what has changed. #data #maturity www.dataorchard.org.uk/events/launc...
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Launch: State of the Sector Data Maturity Report 2024 — Data Orchard
Join us for first sight of this year's State of the Sector report and be first to understand how data maturity across sectors is changing.
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Kicking off at the IRM Data, AI and Analytics conferences. We’re celebrating 21 years of DAMA UK today too 😊#DAIA24 #data #damauk
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Julian @julianlstar.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
📣Calling all energy and data people📣 ⚡Open Data Manchester is running an Electricity Data Dive with Electricity North West and Kraken on 5th November. If you're interested in the data behind our electricity generation, supply and usage, this is for you 👉 bit.ly/ODM-SPARK
View from the bottom of an electricity pylon looking up to the apex and showing the symmetrical structure of beams and cross braces
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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 07/10/2024
Trying to pull all/most of the responses to this together, I've put together some of my own reflections on the big questions around the "digital centre" here: connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/10...
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Digital Centre of Government: first reflections
I’ve been appointed to an external advisory panel to support the design of the “digital centre” in DSIT (currently a smooched together combination of GDS, CDDO and i.AI). I put out a call on Bluesky f...
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
New #dataprotection audit framework launched to help organisations improve compliance ico.org.uk/about-the-ic... from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Related: Accountability Framework ico.org.uk/for-organisa...
The framework is an extension of our existing Accountability Framework, and it has nine toolkits covering the following key areas:

● Accountability
● Records management
● Information & cyber security
● Training and awareness
● Data sharing
● Requests for data
● Personal data breach management
● Artificial intelligence
● Age-appropriate design
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Love this stat! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #910,933! #data #stats
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #910,933, Lisa Allen ‪@lisaallen.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 8, 2023"
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Kicking off the #ThinkData event with Jonathan Roberts, Chief Data Officer at the Ministry of Justice. It's fascinating to see how the data challenges we face are remarkably similar across industries.
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 04/09/2024
🚨 DATA BITES KLAXON 🚨 It’s the first Weds of the month, which is normally Data Bites day! There’s no event today – but I'll have news soon on future dates For the uninitiated (lucky you), Data Bites is a monthly meetup showcasing interesting data projects in govt...
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 01/08/2024
Do you have an #OpenData demo that you'd like to show off to a friendly crowd? We ( OpenUK ) are having an open data meet up on 17th September in London. www.meetup.com/openuk/event... If you'd like to show something - please drop me a message.
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OpenUK London #17: Open Data, Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Know/Contribute to/Maintain an awesome Open Source Data project you want to share in a demo? [Contact us!](https://linkedin.com/in/jkriggins) We'd love to have you present
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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 01/07/2024
Coming to #odcamp 9 in Manchester this weekend? You should have received an email with details of timings, etc., but in case it's got lost, we posted teh information to the webiste www.odcamp.uk/odcamp-9-att... Also, there a a few tickets left if you'd like to come along. #opendata
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ODCamp 9: Attendee Information
We’re so excited that we’ve got just a few days left until we all meet up for Open Data Camp 9! This email includes where to go, when to go there and other useful information. First thing first If …
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Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Open Data Camp 9 will be in held in Manchester on the 6th and 7th July 2024 Tickets are available now, are free and doing brisk business www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-...
A photo of a collection of attendees and camp makers grouped around a post-it note covered whiteboard discussing the schedule of open data camp 8 in Wolverhampton
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Katherine Rooney @krooney.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
It's happening! See you there?
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Internet of Public Service Jobs Newsletter @digitalbydefault.jobs · 17/03/2024
The Internet of Public Service jobs is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukes.ie 🧵 for this week -
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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 13/03/2024
Open Data Camp is going back to Manchester! Open Data Camp 9 July 6 & 7, 2024 Keep an eye on odcamp.uk, for more information, coming soon. #odcamp #opendata
Open Data Camp charbang illustraion
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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 11/03/2024
Hello everyone! Watch this space for announcements about OD Camp 9, coming soon... 🎉
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Maurizio Napolitano @napotn.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
📢 As an enthusiast of #mapping, #opendata and #innovation I'm thrilled to invite you to the #webinar #openstreetmap's role in fostering collaboration and driving innovation. Join me on Mar 14 at 10:30 AM (CET) for an insightful journey into OSM's impactful as a common good ti.to/ngi/maurizio...
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
On my way to catch up with the DAMA UK crew! Looking at how we can continue to serve the needs of data professionals in the UK #data #damauk www.dama-uk.org
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DAMA UK Home
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 18/02/2024
This weeks newsletter jobs in one handy🧵
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
#SOOCON24 great talk on open source and the business model around maintaining open source. Dr Allan Friedman “Hackers are the immune system of the internet”
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
📢Job klaxon📢 Calling all #DataEngineers! Your chance to join our great Data Services Team at the Pensions Regulator. As a forward-thinking team, helping to keep > £2trn of savings safe & positively impacting millions of lives for decades to come www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/about-us/...
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Azure Data Engineer
The Pensions Regulator is the regulator of work-based pension schemes in the UK
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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Now in its 17th year, UKGovCamp is the unconference for people interested in public sector digital, data and technology. Next event is all day Saturday 20 January 2024 in central London. See www.ukgovcamp.com for more. Registration closes 1730 Friday. See our 2023 video youtu.be/M1hD_Dyb8Zg
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UKGovCamp 2023
UKGovCamp is an annual unconference themed around how the public sector does digital, data and technology. Video recorded and edited by Graham Higgins.
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 08/01/2024
🚨 NEW YEAR, NEW DATA BITES 🚨 And what a brilliant line up we have for our 48th event on Monday 26 February, a smart data special with Smart Data Research UK Sign up to join us in person @instituteforgov.bsky.social or online: bit.ly/IFGDataBites48
An image with details of the 48th Data Bites event, taking place at the IfG on Monday 26 February at 6pm, including the speakers:
- Joe Cuddeford, Director at Smart Data Research UK
- Frank Gauld, Chief Executive Officer at Smart Data Foundry
- Ben Goldacre, Director at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
- Professor Gina Neff, Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
At Think Data for government conference today. Interesting stat quoted was that data was worth £165 billion to the UK economy last year. Excellent panel chairing by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social #thinkdata
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 24/11/2023
This weeks #jobs newsletter has some BIG roles - tinyletter.com/jukesie/lett...
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Public Service Internet jobs [24/11/203]
Public Service Internet jobs is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukesie
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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 20/11/2023
Hey folks, have you registered for UkGovCamp2024 returning on Sat 20 Jan?! An attendee-led event focused on improving public services. It’s FREE to attend, we’ve got lunch covered & there’s even creche available. Register to be part of the magic! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ukgcXL
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Lisa Allen @lisaallen.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
My son is on the Berkshire Young People’s Diabetics Council & are raising awareness of Type 1 diabetes. 🩸💪 They’ve just launched the “Hypo to Hero” podcast, sharing their experiences and insights. Listen here: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/9f6... #Type1Diabetes #HypoToHero #ProudParent
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