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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 1d

Did my first at the weekend. It is definitely lasagne season

Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 2d

This new paper from @blimeysimon.bsky.social @thekingsfund.bsky.social is helpful primer on the big questions in front of the Casey Commission. I’m not so convinced by a national assessment system, not least because I fear losing babies with bath water - but agree it’s worth thinking through

The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 2d

The social care system is not fit for purpose. Many people can't access the care and support they need and others are left facing catastrophic costs. Our new long read outlines the six key issues and the options cited to tackle them. https://bit.ly/3VPOdH3

Fixing Social Care: The Six Key Problems And How To Tackle Them

Different people have different opinions about what’s ‘wrong’ with social care and how to fix it. This long read outlines the six key issues and the options cited to tackle them.

www.kingsfund.org.uk

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Care Provider Alliance @cpa-socialcare.bsky.social · 9d

Fair pay agreement consultation
@DHSCgovuk is seeking feedback from individuals & organisations on how to establish the best way to collectively agree a #fairpay agreement.
Consultation closes 11:59pm on 16 Jan 2026
www.gov.uk/governmen...
#socialcare #caremanagers #consultation

Fair pay agreement process in adult social care

Consultation about the fair pay agreement process in adult social care.

www.gov.uk

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 12d

roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context

National roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system: a longitudinal observational study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink data

Social prescribing has expanded rapidly in England, far exceeding initial targets of 900 000 patients by 2023–24, suggesting broad service acceptability. Progress is being made in reaching specific ta...

www.thelancet.com

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 9d

Ha. Teacher brain!

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 9d

Some very wise heads have come together to think through the 10 Year Plan. This is worth a read

Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 10d

Together with a set of ridiculously qualified colleagues, under the auspices of the BMJ, have contributed to this assessment of the Government's 10 Year Plan for the NHS. We conclude that we need greater clarity on the how and fewer priorities. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Delivering on the 10 year health plan for England

Members of the The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS consider the difficulties of implementing the health plan and what is needed for success The 10 year health plan for England1 isn’t so much ...

www.bmj.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 13d

I've long had an interest in asylum and immigration issues, on which I'm sadly no longer reporting.
I also like riding my bike.
So, next Saturday, I'm undertaking the #BoxHill100 in aid of the emergency appeal by Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/box-hill-1...

Box Hill 100 for Southwark's asylum seeker centre

I'm raising money to help keep Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers open at a time when funding is desperately short

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11d

To illustrate the point a pizza at Pizza Express is now £20 or you can get a rump steak at Hawksmoor for £27. The gap has really shrunk.

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 11d

Specifically around casual dining, a lot have been "invested" in by Private Equity, who want their return for the pension pots they serve. Casual high street dining is now competing with quite simply better restaurants for similar price points

Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 12d

The £100 ‘Bill Shock’ in high street restaurants. What happens when a once affordable treat – at Wagamama/Bill’s/Pizza Express etc – becomes a luxury?
I have investigated…🧵

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 14d

At @socialcarefuture.bsky.social gathering today the Casey Commission flagged that it has today opened itself up to hear views directly from people and organisations. More detail is promised soon on structured engagement, but the form is open now: caseycommission.co.uk/contact/

Contact us | The Casey Commission

Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

caseycommission.co.uk

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 15d

Great to be with @socialcarefuture.bsky.social movement in Manchester today. @alexfoxshared.bsky.social is doing great work capturing the key points in this morning’s ‘Suggestion Time’ for the Casey Commission

Alex Fox @alexfoxshared.bsky.social · 15d

At #socialcarefuture gathering there is call for radical commissioning reform.
@coproisaac.bsky.social says people can feel ‘sold to the lowest bidder’ for support. Says we can’t fixate on (real) lack of money when things like approach to coproduction and equality can be changed now

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 27d

I’ve been talking a lot about home being not necessarily the place you already live, but more a place of safety and connection. This story illustrates that beautifully

FitzRoy - Transforming Lives @fitzroyuk.bsky.social · 27d

Chris’s story is a powerful reminder of what can be achieved when people are given the chance to live in homes not hospitals 🏡💙

Read Chris's full story ➡️ https://fitzroy.org/stories/how-the-right-place-and-people-helped-chris-thrive/

#TransformingLives #HomesNotHospitals

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · 28d

I believe there was a Fairy Liquid campaign years ago which made a big deal of the fact you didn’t have to rinse their liquid off and clearly it had HUGE cut through to the nation

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred

I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain

Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · Sep 6

Urgh. Some people are real bellends

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 31

Read up and down this thread: trans people have been treated abominably by the state and are now in an impossible position to

Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.
The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (11/13)

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · Aug 27

Didn't have 'the Vagina Museum takes a bat to generative AI' on my 2025 bingo card, but I'm here for it all the same.

Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly.

A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 15

Loneliness is rife among young men. It’s time to get offline and talk to each other | Alexander Hurst

It’s tempting to scoff, but don’t dismiss the data. Modern man’s failure to forge real, meaningful friendships is bad for everyone, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello network. Do I know anyone that might be able to lend me a desk and a bit of wifi near King’s Cross tomorrow afternoon?

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · Aug 3

These kinds of support services are exactly what we’ll need to move care out of hospitals. We can’t afford to be losing these organisations right now

Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social · Aug 3

Support services always seem to become an afterthought when medicine 💊 is available.

But these services save lives, create friendships, educate, build self-love. Something a pill could never do.

We must save them.

Decades-old HIV charity's fear over future funding www.bbc.com/news/article...

London HIV charity Positively UK could close over funding crisis

Positively UK, which has supported thousands of people with HIV since 1986, is struggling financially.

www.bbc.com

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neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · Jul 21

A weekend away camping with two old friends got me thinking about how central our sense of identity is to our wellbeing, and how much sustaining it relies on our relationships.

Happier campers:

makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/h...

Happier campers

After a really hectic week it was wonderful to spend last weekend getting away with my two oldest friends for a weekend’s camping, walking, drinking and eating in the countryside around Strou…

makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com

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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great to hear @georgiagould.bsky.social talking about creating an authorising environment for civil servants to work differently with the frontline to deliver the test, learn and grow approach - but contrary to No10 media guidance that civil servants shouldn’t engage in public Q&A?

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is really very good - well worth a read. I think the point about respecting people’s time is particularly well made. Relationships are built on trust - including trust that people will show up when they say

The Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social · Jul 16

Read a brilliant article by Emma de Closset, Chief Executive of @ukcf.bsky.social about her reflections on moving from civil service to civil society ⬇️

futuregovforum.substack.com/p/one-leader...

One leader’s reflections on moving from the civil service to civil society

Emma de Closset is the Chief Executive of UK Community Foundations (UKCF), a place-based network which invests in communities through local giving and philanthropy.

futuregovforum.substack.com

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Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · Jul 13

Story tonight about our joint open letter to The Times

We’re calling for the guidance that is preventing civil servants from participating in public and stakeholder events to be withdrawn

www.thetimes.com/article/2e4f...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing demands to ditch a new government edict that bans senior health officials, military leaders and even the head of the civil service from speaking openly in public.
In a letter in today's Times the leaders of more than a dozen think tanks, including the Royal Society and Nuffield Trust, warned the prime minister that the new rule was having a "chilling effect on public discussion" with some events already being cancelled.
In private, several former cabinet secretaries are understood to have made their concerns clear to Downing Street.
The new rules have even been condemned by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former head of communications, who was himself not shy about controlling the messaging of No10.

In their letter the think tanks describe the new rules as a "mistake", saying that
"effective government" relies on public servants hearing directly from businesses, charities and citizens to help them make better policy. They warned: "They should be able to explain government activity to those same groups. It the guidance] is causing confusion and a chilling effect on public discussion. The government should withdraw it."

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Jul 9

Is it though?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 9

Keir Starmer's spokesman asked if the Government plans to remain on X, given its AI bot has been making antisemitic comments and endorsing Hitler, replies that this is an "internal" matter for the company

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Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social · Jul 8

I feel attacked! (Great thread, well worth a read)

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Jul 8

I am writing a policy pamphlet. Here are all the ways to demonstrate I don't really have a policy answer, that I need to avoid:

a. You call for a "national conversation or debate"
b. You suggest that what is needed is “a change in culture”
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