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Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social · 4d

📢No more waiting on the 5 week wait, says my @citizensadvice.bsky.social colleague @julia-rt.bsky.social

The 5 week wait for a first UC payment means families end up in debt to DWP -leading to deductions from future payments that cause real hardship

This needs to change medium.com/citizens-adv...

No more waiting on the 5 week wait

This autumn, the government has the chance to take action on one of Universal Credit’s longest-standing problems: “the 5 week wait”.

medium.com

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 14h

The causes can be preventable but only with the genuine involvement of young people in designing the right 'why' and 'how' questions and coming up with the solutions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns

Alcohol, suicide and injuries driving rises among teenagers and young adults despite overall rates falling, authors say

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 4h

Strongly support this idea from @mrjlauder.bsky.social. "Is spending money on a particular service better than a cash transfer" is a good way of learning how to improve services and reduce inequalities

Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 13h

EEF RCT proposal: give EHCP money as a direct cash transfer to families.

Reckon there's a good chance that would lead to better outcomes.

Worth finding out - this would tell us a lot about a lot.

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NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service) @nyasservices.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine being told you have 24 hours to pack your things into bin bags and leave everything behind.

Imagine losing your teddy, your best friend, the one thing connecting you to your past.🧸

Has your local authority signed our #MyThingsMatter pledge for dignity in moving? Learn how you can help!👇🏻

My Things Matter | Supported by Madlug Bags | NYAS

My Things Matter is a NYAS campaign in partnership with Madlug to champion dignity and respect for children moving in care.

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Jon Hutchinson @jonhutchinson.bsky.social · 3d

“There is a whole workforce that is just hiding in plain sight. These people are already working with kids, they love kids, but their development is stymied, so this is about unleashing those people.”

HUGE news. 👇

Will be transformational.

schoolsweek.co.uk/trust-offers...

Trust offers degree pathway to create ‘children’s workforce’

Reach Foundation to launch unit to provide 'structural solutions' to recruitment and retention issues

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Tania Tirraoro @tanialt.bsky.social · 3d

Children harmed by decision to redeploy health visitors, Covid inquiry hears - True—my grandson was born in August 2020. they had one virtual health visitor chat for quite young, neurodivergent first time parents.

Children harmed by decision to redeploy health visitors, Covid inquiry hears

Some children paid "the highest price" of death because of redeployments, says health visiting charity head.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 3d

Arguably this is the realignment that should naturally have happened post 2010 but was delayed by Clegg going in to coalition

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 10d

Every minute of delay brings more misery in Gaza. But we now have a chance to deliver.

We call on all parties to agree to a ceasefire.

Give us the access. Let us work.

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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints

Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

www.bbc.com

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d

Now in Yr 3 they all do exactly the same stuff British primary school children have always done - practicing the recorder, cutting up crepe paper with scissors, learning about the Egyptians for some reason, going on school trips to see the Cutty Sark. They're all becoming little Londoners. (3/end)

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d

It's a great school! The need to support those children with limited English comes at zero cost to the education of others in the same class and, in fact, it works to their benefit because it gives all the kids exposure to children from different backgrounds. (2/)

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d

OK so my younger son's primary has I think the highest rate of children with English as a second language in the borough (and one of the highest in the country). Biggest primary in the borough too (650 kids). There are quite a lot of kids who start reception with v little spoken English. (1/)

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education"

Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects

[CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d

Policymaking - developing and agreeing policies, and then implementing them - is difficult, but plenty of people (increasingly) confuse it with "coming up with ideas for policies" which is, indeed, very easy. Same philosophy that says that announcing the thing is the same as doing the thing

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7d

Someone who thinks 'policymaking is generally not very complicated' either does not know what they are talking about or has very strong ideological leanings that help disappear the trade-offs that worry the rest of us.

Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 8d

Good thing he has a high quality team of thoughtful people with a firm grasp of the issues and how complex governing is

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 8d

Gloria Odhi, a participant of Changing Realities, shared her story with the Scottish first minister with the hope of inspiring change.

I couldn't afford to fix my broken bed. People in poverty like me need help with the essentials

www.bigissue.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at...

The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner

observer.co.uk

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 11d

Meanwhile @annelongfield.bsky.social tells Tes reporter @ktorm-social1.bsky.social that the DfE needs to make racial inclusion “a key thematic priority” because it “too often” falls off the education agenda.

Exclusive:

Racial inclusion ‘falls off’ the education agenda, says Longfield

The inclusion taskforce member calls on the DfE to make anti-racism a ‘key priority’, warning that Black children can feel ‘unsafe and over-policed’ at school

www.tes.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11d

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you

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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 11d

Really important from @resfoundation.bsky.social

I have spent more hours of my life then I care to remember looking at different compromise options for the 2 child limit.

The clear conclusion is scrap it in full, no ifs, not buts and no half measures.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 11d

Is there room for compromise on the two-child limit?

Entirely scrapping it would have the biggest impact on child poverty and be most cost-effective.

The two-child limit means that an
additional 500,000 children are
currently growing up in poverty. If current policies remained in place,
we would expect one-in-three British
children to be growing up in poverty
by the end of the decade

immediate abolition would cost £3.5 billion
per year and lift half a million children out
of poverty by the end of the decade. How do less ambitious options measure up?

Other rumoured options would be less cost effective

and other options would risk creating new cliff edges.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 11d

Is there room for compromise on the two-child limit?

Entirely scrapping it would have the biggest impact on child poverty and be most cost-effective.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 12d

If you have a Jewish friend, neighbour, colleague then send them a text rather than saying something on social media.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 12d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social · 13d

Very encouraging to read that the Government is preparing to lift the two-child limit as part of its child poverty strategy, but it is disheartening that options short of scrapping it entirely are still being considered. Thread on why this would be the wrong choice for an ambitious strategy:

Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November budget

Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year

www.theguardian.com

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Love Ballymena @loveballymena.online · 15d

“Children’s rights were violated.”

As Module 8 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry opens today, Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) says the voices of children must finally be heard.

(@nichildcom.bsky.social)

Read more below.

“Children’s rights were violated”: NI Commissioner speaks as Covid Inquiry Module 8 opens today

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has opened Module 8, examining the pandemic’s impact on children and young people. NICCY will ensure children’s voices and rights are heard during the hearings.

www.loveballymena.online

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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 13d

The Prime Minister’s confirmation that government is on a journey to end child poverty is welcome and this can only mean that the Budget scraps the two-child limit and benefit cap. Children and families have waited patiently and now it’s time for government to deliver.

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Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social · 13d

Hearing Jonny speak was one of my highlights of Labour Party conference - do read his piece

Kitty Stewart @kittyjstewart.bsky.social · 13d

labourlist.org/2025/09/chil... Great piece by Jonny Roberts of @changingrealities.bsky.social But looks like the battle to end the pernicious two child limit goes on

'Bringing emotion and reality to the debate on child poverty.': one conference attendee's experience - LabourList

Jonny Roberts has come to conference to share his experience of being a single dad - and call for Labour to take bold action on child poverty.

labourlist.org

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