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SEND mum of a severely learning disabled daughter. Left wing defender of single sex exceptions. Here for the pudding recipes, SEND and sex realists.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scrolling around for gloves, I stumbled on a chimera. Meet THE GLUFF. Yours for £154.
The Gluff - a mitten/muff hybrid
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Also, Croydon www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/2641737...
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Worker suspended after care home resident ‘kicked three times’ in Croydon
An investigation has been launched by police and a care worker has been suspended after images appeared to show a resident being "kicked"…
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pubs are closing all around us and yet somehow @hounslowgreens.bsky.social have taken it upon themselves to stop riverside pubs in Chiswick from having any outside seating. It would be useful to know why? These summer months are crucial to pubs.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Incredible to brag about the modest rise in the Universal Credit standard allowance without even hinting at the *huge* cut - nearly 50% - to Universal Credit's disability element from this April www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s new welfare changes are practical and compassionate – so why not loudly say so? | Polly Toynbee
Universal credit to rise faster than inflation, benefit hurdles eased, extra help for children and young people … I bet you had no idea, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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For Women Scotland @forwomen.scot · 21/11/2025
What a great night!
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 19/06/2025
Sharing this on the eve of tomorrow's vote. I am a palliative care doctor who is not opposed to AD. But enshrining in law a state-funded right to die, while not enshrine a similar right to the palliative care that might make life worth living, is so very wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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MPs have personal beliefs, but also solemn duties: that’s why they must reject the assisted dying bill this week | Gordon Brown
Our obligations to each other are ill served if laws focus unduly on those who want assisted dying. The priority should be the best palliative care, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some Karen’ being the battlecry. Pathetic ⬇️
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I hope Aquafresh are paying them for this
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I have at least 30 pairs of reading glasses. Except none of them appear to be anywhere in the house. Cross.
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I do love a tin. Cannot wait for today’s online order. An almost unheard of event to have my husband’s ‘is it functional’ *and* my ‘is it a lovely old tin’ both ticked at once www.bakerybits.co.uk/triple-pack-...
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Triple Pack - Madagascan Vanilla Powder Gift for Bakers
A lovely stocking-filler for your baker friends and family, we're offering 3 of three delightful tins at £25 discounted from the usual £30. We noticed that lots of people have been buying multiple tin...
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📣 📣 NEW EDITORIAL @theguardian.com "As well as the insidious conduct of individuals, the series sheds light on the systemic nature of the abuse and the tenacity of the women who uncovered the truth." #spycops www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on undercover policing: the struggle for accountability continues | Editorial
Editorial: The public inquiry into police spies was brought about by the bravery of the women they abused, as a new documentary shows
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Bracing myself for watching the first of three programmes on #SpyCops tonight inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
inews.co.uk
‘At 22, I was tricked into a sexual relationship by an undercover policeman’
Helen Steel was with madly in love with ‘John Barker’ – then he vanished. A new documentary tells her story and those of other women duped by ‘spycops’
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
no shit. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Kyle Clifford watched Andrew Tate videos before triple murder
Jury was not told that former soldier convicted of murder and now rape was interested in self-styled misogynist influencer
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Today’s excitement …
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Saba Salman @sabasalman.com · 04/03/2025
Civilised society imprisons over 2k people in these brutal long stay warehouses, people who are not criminals. ‘Kasibba’ was locked up for 45 years from age 7, in long term segregation for half the time. Years of evidence, years of broken promises by different govts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years
“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
V spent her childhood regressing, w/out a genetic diagnosis. Her MRI & chromosomes tested as ‘normal’ at 4; it took us years to get whole genome sequencing. She was diagnosed at 19. We celebrate her determination every day & hope that genetic screening is more routinely offered to families like ours
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
'It saddens me that #Unison which has 75 per cent female membership, has as its first motion at its Women’s conference one that seeks to undermine Equality Act protections for women.' @unisontheunion.bsky.social #TradeUnion #UNWC25 #UWomen25 #WomenInUnison www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
telegraph.co.uk
Trade union accused of betraying women by pushing trans-rights agenda
Unison to debate motion that asserts that ‘trans women are women’ at same time as a nurse battles NHS over single-sex spaces
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Compare the performances of schoolboys with international female athletes. And compare them year on year on year. You can say that you want to prioritise inclusion over fairness in sport. But it is a choice. It is an indication that women's sport doesn't matter to you.
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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ah yes, the whole Nazi thing. I scrolled through both sites on the evening of Trump’s inauguration. Seventeen zillion posts about Musk’s arm gesture. Virtually none about antisemitic graffiti and firebombing of a daycare centre in a Jewish suburb of Sydney which happened at around the same time
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You can't make this shit up www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries
At a news conference, Trump read a list of conditions he called disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019.
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Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"We have to acknowledge that black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth. It’s gone down from 4 times because more white working class women are now more likely to die in childbirth, so we’re closing the gap in the wrong way." @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social #FabianNYC25
A grand room in London's Guildhall, with a large audience watching Wes Streeting MP give a speech in front of a Fabian Society banner.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Less than 1% of refuge spaces in the U.K. are accessible for wheelchair users, new data shows. That’s particularly scandalous considering disabled women are more than twice as likely to experience domestic abuse than non-disabled women. news.sky.com/story/amp/le...
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'Less than 1%' of refuge spaces for women fleeing abuse suitable for wheelchair users, data shows
Data obtained by Sky News from Women's Aid shows only 1.8% of vacancies at refuges and temporary housing could accommodate a woman with limited mobility.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 23/01/2025
Low-to-middle income households in the UK have much lower incomes than their European counterparts. Despite having a similar GDP per capita, typical households in the UK are 9% poorer than French households, and our low-income households are 27% poorer than their French counterparts.
Chart showing 10th percentile and median equivalised household net income relative to UK: selected OECD countries, 2018
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Yes!!!! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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Primark launches clothing range designed for people with disabilities
Range of womenswear and menswear contains 49 pieces adapted from brand’s bestselling items to suit variety of needs
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Might be one of the most important, urgent things I've ever written: 50% of social care spending is on disabled people, but that part of the mounting care crisis is completely ignored www.theguardian.com/uk/commentis...
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Opinion | The Guardian
Latest opinion, analysis and discussion from the Guardian. CP Scott: "Comment is free, but facts are sacred"
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
10 kilos of blood oranges delivered via crowdfarming www.crowdfarming.com/en?fbclid=Iw... and a substack for f what to do too from @nicmiller.bsky.social too - both of these are on my list of what keeps me grounded as the mum of a profoundly autistic (late) teen
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CrowdFarming | Farm fresh food directly from the farmer
Adopt a tree, an animal or part of a garden, receive fresh food cultivated just for you straight from the farmers and help fight food waste.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
There is already 25 minutes more daylight than the shortest day and by the end of this week it will be around 45 minutes.
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Today’s, probably 2025’s SEND must read …
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
‘When a child is already in care and is being failed by their corporate parents, anyone raising the alarm has to raise the alarm with the corporate parent. A failing corporate parent marks its own homework. There is no independent regulator of Local Authorities’ Children’s Services’ RIP Tash 💔
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Labour Women's Declaration @labwomendec.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Useful summary, as ever, from Sex Matters. This is big news.
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
When my daughter was at nursery (she was two) we found out from one of her classmates (who was three) that she was never included in fire drills. When I queried this with the manager, she said it was because it was a moving & handling risk. May this father and son RIP 💔
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A 67 year old amputee and wheelchair user lived with his son who had cerebral palsy. They were killed in the Eaton fire while waiting for an ambulance that never arrived. Many disabled people can not evacuate on their own. They need to be included in evacuation plans (yet almost never are)
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Father Missing a Limb and Son with Cerebral Palsy Weren't Able to Evacuate L.A. Fires in Time, Family Says
A 67-year-old amputee along with his son with cerebral palsy died in the Eaton fire on Jan. 8, according to his daughter.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I will never, ever get over this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2025
i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Next Sunday (19th) it is. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Harriet Wistrich, lawyer
Harriet Wistrich, lawyer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
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Stay Up Late @gigbuddies.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Introducing Gig Buddies 👋 our befriending project which pairs up adults with learning disabilities and/or autistic people with volunteers based on their shared interests. This can be music, theatre, art, sport - anything you love! This reconnects people with their community & combats isolation 👍👍👍
Gig Buddies out a pub having a drink together.
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A Pellegrin Ice Cream Car, Germany 1980s #BMWIsetta
Penguin shaped ice cream promo car made from the body of a BMW Isetta
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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A ground of her own: How a retired Indian policewoman built a playground for women in Kerala The uniqueness of the women-only playground lies not only in its assertion that women have the right to safe public spaces, but that women have the right to playful leisure.
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A ground of her own: How a retired policewoman built a playground for women in Kerala
Every morning and evening in Madakkara, the sound of football kicks and cycle bells reverberate alongside laughter, as groups of women and girls from the neighb
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
‘The Mexican family has been housed since June ‘21 in various hotel rooms at a Best Western, that they successfully argued does not provide for the child’s medical and care needs. He suffers from conditions including epileptic encephalopathy, experiences multiple seizures a day & is fed by a tube’
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
‘he is now 18 … a door will be slammed when he reaches his early 20s, and we will find ourselves in a make-do-and-mend reality of day centres and occasional trips out. Surely, after all these years of increasing knowledge of autism … we can do a bit better than that’ ⬇️
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
6 January 1945 | A German Jewish woman, Edith Frank, the mother of Anne and Margot Frank, died at the German camp #Auschwitz from exhaustion. It happened 3 weeks before the Red Army liberated the last prisoners of the camp and 10 days before Edith's 45th birthday.
Black and white portrait of Edith Frank smiling at the camera.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The economic cost of Brexit to the UK now exceeds what it paid into the EU over its entire 47 years of membership. A colossal, unprecedented act of economic self-harm sold to a nation by grifters and snake oil salesmen.
A photo of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage
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neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
We require three key transitions: From ‘caring for the vulnerable’ ➡️ to nourishing personhood and wellbeing From coal-powered production-line commissioning ➡️ to helping to grow renewable ecosystems of neighbourhood support From delivering services *to* people ➡️ to scaffolding agency *by* people
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Cllr Ian Parsons @labourian.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
As Sonia Sodha says on social care:" if you’re not going to spend political capital meeting the big challenges facing the country using the social democratic principles you hold dear, what’s the point of winning an election in the first place"? So true. For the common good. Country first.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This lovely Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago! Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today! British Museum 📷 me #Archaeology
Hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. The glass is composed of sections of star patterned cane in blue, purple (looks black in my photo), and green, which appear as a floral pattern. The bowl has a black and white spiral rim. Made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC. The bowl has been reconstructed and blue glass fragments which do not belong to this vessel have been used to fill missing areas.
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pallavicinisam.bsky.social @pallavicinisam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Please read this blog. Adult social care for my daughter started when she turned 18. It will provide the carers & services that ensure she flourishes. It must only ever be forward-thinking and forward-looking: it is not end of life. Not when you are eighteen. Or ever, really.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Have written a longer version of this, including on the history of social care and how we got here. Enough of acting timidly when you have the largest majority in memory. To govern is to choose. So, choose something. benansell.substack.com/p/profiles-i...
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Profiles in Discourage
Labour's punting of social care reflects a bigger problem of indecision
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Chris Lutton @chrislutton92.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Every time I hear Billy Bragg sing A New England, all I can think is "Thank goodness for Kirsty MacColl".
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