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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fantastic work @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social we are smiling at this news and children will be able to play with energy from nutritious FSM in their bellies! Paul Wright
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In the hierarchy of Needs, nutritious food is a must for growing children. Where possible please support the call for Auto-enrollment of Free School Meals (and i'd add Healthy Start Scheme). BBC News - Auto-enrol eligible pupils for free school meals, say MPs www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Auto-enrol eligible pupils for free school meals, say MPs
Education select committee calls for change "without delay", warning that pupils who should be fed free are missing out.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It has to be wondered if our TAX BIG TECH campaign to fund child health has hit a :nerve' overseas? Especially as today's news headline shows that the Trump administration are placing pressure on our government to provide Big Tech with the opposite of tax breaks? www.change.org/tax_big_tech... #x
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Latest study indicates the benefits of phone bans in schools are not as pronounced as would commonly thought. Instead, should we think about Vaccinating Social Media? BBC News - Phone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggests - BBC News lnkd.in/eTU56nWR
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If they are 'getting away' with this on Tobacco, why do we believe they would help in bringing health food to us, rather than Ultra Processed Foods? BBC News - Top supermarkets running 'prohibited' tobacco ads www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Sainsbury's and Morrisons run 'prohibited' tobacco advertising
Trading Standards says adverts for heated tobacco products are banned, but some supermarkets disagree.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sometimes a big change in one sector can reverberate through society. This, could... could be such a change, on that shakes a lot of future assumptions. BBC News - China's DeepSeek AI shakes industry and dents America's swagger www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
DeepSeek AI shakes American swagger and upends assumptions
The app spooked the markets as well as the bullish sense of American superiority in AI development.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Having been through weeks of such court appearances battling for our adopted son, very glad to see this change in regards Family Court and Press being able to report. BBC News - Press now allowed to report from family courts www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Family courts: 'Watershed moment' as press allowed to report
From Monday, journalists can speak to families about ongoing cases and report what they hear in court.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We need to look at taxing Big Tech and Big Food to help fund child health and wellbeing! 3 Ministerial replies, 66 Parliamentarians, 200+ child orgs and over 25,000+ of public. www.change.org/tax_big_tech... #x #twitter #ban #taxbigtech #children www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Meta wants X-style community notes to replace fact checkers - can it work?
Many have questioned Meta's motivations for ditching fact checkers - but could it be a positive change?
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Happiness... it's a sunlit upland we want for ourselves and others. BBC News - I spent 30 years trying to unlock the secret to happiness - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
2024 was warmest year on record. The natural Ups and Downs of CO2 'broke' once we started burning fossil fuels. The amount the seas/plants can absorb is at maximum and wildfires/droughts killing plants mean even more CO2 released. Out of 10, how concerned are you?
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Vaccines - Lifesavers for millions, Yes, without risk, No, but that risk is not as large as many are being informed via 'social media' posts.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
RACISM - I have confronted a post, an echo cavern, in which those commenting are under the delusion this was not linked to 'Race'. I disagree... vehemently. How have you tackled RACISM? #BLM #Racism #freespeech #socialmedia
Racism
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The Lost Generation? BBC News - Fix Send now or risk a 'lost generation' of children, MPs warn - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Fix Send now or risk a 'lost generation' of children, MPs warn
A report finds the special educational needs and disabilities system in
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A new generation of change? BBC News - PM plans to 'unleash AI' across UK to boost growth www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Artificial Intelligence: Plan to 'unleash AI' across UK revealed
Leading tech firms are said to have committed £14bn towards the project, which could create more than 13,000 jobs.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
UPDATE ON KEY CALL FOR RING-FENCED FUNDING FOR CHILD HEALTH INITIATIVES WHILE PREVENTING FUTURE ILL HEALTH. Thank you to the 57 politicians for their support for the enactment of two levies to fund child health and well-being - chng.it/vFp9pgmfVL. Thank you also to the three Ministers.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A thousand cuts... we need to turn this tide. Support the call for a Junk Food and Big Tech Tax to fund child health and well-being initiatives - www.change.org/tax_big_tech... BBC News - Rising costs force 'difficult choices' on schools www.bbc.com/news/article...
change.org
Sign the Petition
Tax Big Tech & Junk Food to Fund Children's Health & Well-being!
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
If it was to snow outside of Christmas, the first Sunday of the New Year is enough to bring the inner child SMILE!
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Wishing you all a great year. One in which we together can be the voices and actions to make significant changes in our children's and young people's lives! X
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This says a lot about my youth, about the worries in society now and in the future!
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Imagine what you can do in a decade, the sights to behold, the cuddles with grandchildren... all taken away by Tobacco. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
theguardian.com
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Figure is nearly double an estimate from 2000 and means a pack of 20 cigarettes costs a person seven hours on average
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Wishing all my connections that you get to enjoy friends and family this year. A lot of struggles for many behind a smile, but if we support each other, we will grow together into a brighter 2025.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Interesting study on effects of Early Childhood Adversity. The cost to the individual, the families, the community, the wider society is huge in all so many ways including financially. A key area for True PREVENTION initiatives. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Hangover from COVID... less Behaviorial/Public Health funds... stress from Cost of Living crisis... time PREVENTION was placed truly at the top of the health agenda. BBC News - Deaths from alcohol at record high in England www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Deaths from alcohol in England at record high
Public-health experts are calling for minimum pricing to stop further rises in harmful drinking.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A World of Anger - Welcome to RAGE-BATE... Time to Tax Big Tech. BBC News - What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable?BBC News - What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable?
Called rage-baiting, making people angry with social media posts can be a business.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
An example of Bias... one should not take their studies 'to find what one believes is there', but to find 'what is actually there'.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
BBC News - Only adverts showing junk food covered by TV ban www.bbc.com/news/article... Loop holes!
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
BBC News - 'Our generation is lonelier so we're friendship matchmakers' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Sometimes you just need to take a moment x
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Addiction - Loot Boxes are just another 'pull' towards undermining the emotional health of young people. BBC News - Top-selling mobile games breaking rules on loot boxes - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Top-selling mobile games breaking rules on loot boxes
Ads for games are meant to say if they contain loot boxes - BBC News has found most do not.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An important factor for policy makers and people such as myself that shine a light on the 'unhealthy habits of large companies'. I've two solicitors letters from Philip Morris (Tobacco) and owners of Budweiser (Alcohol) to persuade me... To lower my voice. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
academic.oup.com
Intimidation against advocates and researchers in the tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food spaces: a review
Abstract. Unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) engage in corporate political activity, using diverse practices, including intimidatory tactics, to thwart,
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Sharon White, OBE #NURSESKY @sharonwhiteobe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you Baroness Watkins,recognising, & supporting #ASchoolNurseInEverySchool saphna.co/get-involved/a… Valuing unique PREVENTION public health contribution they offer to improve our children’s worsening health @gwynnemp.bsky.social #NursesSky @phaffairs.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Your thoughts please on the Public Health pick? I have met and chatted with Dr Vivek current US Surgeon General, a very fine man. I'm sure Dr Nesheiwat is a great TV doctor, but worried she's only being picked because she was seen on Fox News.. BBC - Trump picks Covid www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri... Excellent Report. Well Done Dr Dolly van Tulleken and Henry Dimbleby. I'm happy to say I shared via WhatsApp with 45+ Peers and MPs. www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...
nesta.org.uk
Nourishing Britain: a political manual for improving the nation’s health
Henry Dimbleby and Dr Dolly van Tulleken draw on interviews with former prime ministers and other key figures to offer practical advice and insights on how today’s politicians can tackle the UK’s obes...
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A story many have yet to fully hear. BBC News - ‘I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
‘At 31, I was told if I didn’t stop drinking, I could die’
BBC journalist Hazel Martin was told she had liver fibrosis and must go teetotal or she could die.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
BBC News - ‘I just want to feel ordinary’ – Is the mental health system failing teens? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
‘I just want to feel ordinary’ – Is the mental health system failing teens?
Teenager Mia has struggled to get the support she needs and feels the help she now has "came far too late".
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Well Done to the team in Blackpool. I do hope this continued increase in the need for Food Banks halts and even decreases soon.
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We need to look at taxing Big Tech and Big Food to help fund child health and wellbeing! 3 Ministerial replies, 35 Parliamentarians, 200+ child orgs and over 25,000 members of the public calling for such a big tech levy, are you also ready to support the campaign? www.change.org/tax_big_tech...
change.org
Sign the Petition
Tax Big Tech & Junk Food to Fund Children's Health & Well-being!
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
www.change.org/tax_big_tech...
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Public Health Affairs @phaffairs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
What should we do about this? Tax them, use proceeds for Children's health & wellbeing. With 3 Ministerial replies, 35 Parliamentarians, 200+ child orgs and almost 25,000 members of the public calling for such a big tech levy. www.change.org/tax_big_tech... #x #twitter #ban #taxbigtech #children
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