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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · May 3

Really @cyclingweekly.com, you're happy to publish a letter suggesting that women are less able to cope with a bit of swearing on telly than men??? Enough of the outdated misogynistic nonsense please! Really what I want to say is WTAF, but here's the more thoughtful version:

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · Mar 27

Please tell anyone who might want a late Mum/Mam/Mom on the list - it closes on Saturday night...

Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · Mar 23

Mothering Sunday next week. I'll be reading out the names of our #RememberedMums in church on the morning of Sunday March 30th. If you'd like to add your late mother's name, let me know. It can be oddly comforting to know her name will be typed out and said aloud once again. Reposts welcome. ❤️ 👑

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · Mar 24

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Mar 24

So. Many. Questions!

Super fascinating data, and always good to be made to look at the world a bit differently...

Laura Serra @lauraserra.bsky.social · Mar 24

I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy telling him it’s not true he has become more right-wing… it is me who has become more left-wing 🫠

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Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social · Mar 20

Gripping account of lock down from @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social - brings it back so vividly. It is shocking how society has moved on, while the consequences of the pandemic remain so evidently with us www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Geoff Barton: How the week that ‘changed education forever’ unfolded

Five years ago this week, Covid closed schools across England and Geoff Barton, then ASCL general secretary, was at the heart of the process. He explains how it happened and what it taught us

www.tes.com

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Mar 19

Me, faced with a call from an unknown number: "urgh, who's calling me, they can talk to voicemail if it's even a real person at all."

Me, calling someone who I really need to speak to: "urgh, why on earth does nobody ever pick up their phone any more?!"

#Irony

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · Mar 18

Children cannot learn if they are not in school and are not engaged. Lost learning is impacting a large – and growing – group of children, with those living in poverty being hit the hardest.

📻#ICYMI: @efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today 👇

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Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) @fsb-uk.bsky.social · Mar 18

To reduce the #benefits bill, and get more people into work, the Government should make it easier for small employers to create jobs, with 51% of small employers having hired someone with a health condition in the last three years, FSB's @craigbeaumont.bsky.social tells BBC Radio 4 Today 👇

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Mar 14

Ooh yes, this is excellent news. For me and nearly-10-yr-old Sammy!

Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Mar 6

This looks like a) fascinating and b) hugely important research, to better understand inequalities in access to entry level professional roles.

Duncan Exley @duncanexley.bsky.social · Mar 6

How employer recruitment practices drive inequities in access to professional occupations by socio-economic background & ethnicity.

Research published today by @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

#SocialMobility #DEI #HR
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Dr Claire Tyler on LinkedIn: Inequalities in Access to Professional Careers

📢 New report out today! 📢 💥 Inequalities in Access to Professional Careers💥 ➡️ Access the report here: https://lnkd.in/emTUGM7u ➡️ Access our blog…

www.linkedin.com

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Mar 5

Last week, @workwhileuk.bsky.social brought together employers and policy makers to discuss how apprenticeships can support the government's opportunity & skills missions.

TL;DR - if the apprenticeship system doesn't work for SME's, it doesn't work full stop.

workwhile.org.uk/news/smes-th...

SMEs: the key to unlocking apprenticeships for growth and opportunity – News – Workwhile

Reflections from a private roundtable event held on Tuesday 25th February, supported by our event partners Multiverse.

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Stephen Evans @stephenevans.bsky.social · Feb 27

With LFS caveats, seems a clear & worrying upward trend in % of young people not in education, employment or training. Now nearly one million, with rises seeming sharpest among young men. Reiterates importance of incoming Youth Guarantee in England, plus growing apprenticeships & investing in FE.

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · Feb 27

If the graph below does not make the government invest more in disadv young people (e.g. apprenticeships, traineeships, subsidised jobs / work experience etc) then I really don't know what will.

And no, wrapping existing programmes under a 'Youth Guarantee' banner with no extra money doesn't count.

Stephen Evans @stephenevans.bsky.social · Feb 27

With LFS caveats, seems a clear & worrying upward trend in % of young people not in education, employment or training. Now nearly one million, with rises seeming sharpest among young men. Reiterates importance of incoming Youth Guarantee in England, plus growing apprenticeships & investing in FE.

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 24

It did get it right - but it's still weird reading what it churns out, and thinking 'Hang on, I wrote that!'

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 24

Had my first experience of ChatGPT summarising my own work back at me today, which is definitely some sort of salutary lesson in using AI...🤮

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 10

This week also marks 5 years since we launched the London Progression Collaboration (LPC), the pilot project that underpins @workwhileuk.bsky.social.

2,000 apprenticeships later, happy birthday to us! And huge thanks to everyone who's supported us.

🎉🥂🎂

#NAW25 #NAW2025 #Apprenticeships

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 10

Happy National Apprenticeship Week to all who celebrate!

First up for me this week, we've convened a some SMEs who @workwhileuk.bsky.social has supported, to meet the chair of DfE's Apprenticeship Ambassador Network.

#NAW25 #NAW2025 #Apprenticeships

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rightsnet @rightsnet.org.uk · Feb 6

New: DWP research finds that most health & disability benefit claimants are open to receiving contact about offers of support for employment, benefits or disability services, but that ...

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/61192

Quote: ".... crucially, customers wanted help from DWP to be personal, with genuine attempts to understand their unique needs and circumstances. They wanted to feel supported rather than coerced, monitored or blamed. They wanted to see more joined-up services so that they didn’t need to explain their health conditions repeatedly to different staff and agencies."

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Feb 5

This excellent from @sustrans.bsky.social. An important initiative to bring the voice of children and young people into transport decision making.

Looking forward to seeing this report launched later in February.

Sustrans and Halfords to launch report into children’s walking and cycling

In early 2025 Sustrans will launch the first ever Children’s Walking and Cycling Index, designed to understand the behaviours, barriers and attitudes affecting children’s cycling in the UK.

www.sustrans.org.uk

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 5

Yep!

It's totally bizarre that it could happen without anybody noticing at the time, even in the middle of the night.

Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 5

Ooh lovely, I thought - there's something about Lichfield in the Guardian.

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Oh ☹️ - it's the local flytipping incident of horribly epic proportions.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield?

The city is determined to solve the ‘whodumpedit’ mystery after a huge pile of refuse was discarded, blocking the road. But with fly-tipping across the UK on the up, will it be possible to find the cu...

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Feb 4

When is connectivity whilst travelling by train going to improve? I have a list of things to get done on my way home. Nope, not happening. 😡

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Jan 29

It has been a day spent talking about economic growth, so feels apt to finish with a quick look back at the Dasgupta review. This argued:

“Nature needs to enter economic and finance decision-making in the same way buildings, machines, roads and skills do.”

This message doesn’t feel like it landed…

Final Report - The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review

Final Report of the Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

www.gov.uk

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Ben Cooper @bencooper1995.bsky.social · Jan 29

Another Fabian policy adopted ✅

Great to see the Prime Minister talk about building more quality homes around train stations.

This is something @thefabians.bsky.social recommended in our Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Keir Starmer: We’ll cut the weeds of regulation and let growth bloom

Labour’s policies will unlock investment, slash red tape and usher in a ‘big build’ era, the prime minister writes

www.thetimes.com

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Anna Ambrose @annaambrose.bsky.social · Jan 28

A lot to mull over from a good day out at @ox.ac.uk's SKOPE tertiary education system workshop.

Key themes and lots of consensus about collaboration (and how to incentivise it) and coherence. Lots of discussion and less clear agreement on structures and levels of devolution.