Honoured to have contributed to the drafting of this work.

Thank you Centre for Mental Health and Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition for championing the intersection of MH and school attendance and for supporting our Recommendations and Asks.

Today marks 3 years since Folajimi ‘Jimi’ Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, died after heroically jumping into the river Thames to save a woman from drowning in what was described as a ‘sheer act of bravery.’

Rest in peace Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole 🙏🏾🕊️

I wish Angela Rayner 🌹 was speaking at #PMQs more....she's brilliant

Why is the pathetic Conservatives party trying to bring her down?

She's a Northern, working class, bright as a button, funny woman. Everything they look down on

Go Angela Rayner 👍🏼

Labour will adopt tory welfare reform because its driven by an ideology shared by both main parties. These reforms which seek to remove medical opinion and reconfigure social security in the image of a US insurance company have been in the pipeline since the days of John Major.

Awful.

There are 8.3 million children in England and Wales (aged 5-16) - but just 5000 were on the Tavistock (GIDS) waiting list.

When 'they' tell you there is an 'epidemic' of kids with gender issues, it is a lie - the ratio is one in every one thousand, six hundred & sixty kids.

Wow I’m blown away. My daughter has been friends with a girl who is totally blind since she was 11. She's 21 in June. My D is doing a business admin NVQ. Her blind friend is at Westminster Uni (my d is severe sight impaired) - so she tells me her totally blind friend is…

Hi Wes Streeting MP, I have worked weekends since I left medical school 12 years ago. Now as a consultant I still work 1 in 6 weekends providing county wide tertiary advice in Yorkshire.

We don’t stop working on the weekends or the holidays, unlike MPs or Parliament 🙄

Reposting to see if anyone else has noticed this? When academics write about say disability, they know they should cite scholars in that field. The same for ethnicity. But when it comes to class I don’t see the work of scholars in working class studies being cited so routinely.

'Academics are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. This nearly doubles at prestigious universities & is stable across 50 years...academia is disproportionately accessible to the privileged which shapes their scholarship & reproduction.'

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36038774/

A recent add for a housing association. 'No Care Leavers'. Discrimination in plain sight and that's why we want care experience to be a protected characteristic.

A mum was forced to carry her daughter who was suffering a painful ‘life or death’ sickle cell crisis down 14 flights of stairs after Southern Housing failed to fix the lifts which tenants say have been broken for months at a time.

You do not DARE try to erase our children, you do not DARE.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Ok asked my teenager what she thought about poor behaviour in schools. Here's her response, she helped type this:

1. First off this has been going on for ages ! BBC is late to this. Just check tiktok.
2. She think this is first generation raised totally with technology or…

Olly has been prevented from bouncing at Oxygen Freejumping Acton for 1st time today bcos he has Down Syndrome. They need a letter from the GP. To say what exactly? Olly was pointlessly X-Rayed to be able to join British gymnastics. 💔🥲 insurers misinformed Down's Syndrome Association DSRF_UK

#parentviews101 Not Fine in School
A 6th form student with ADHD made it to new mainstream school today independently & without parental assistance. Returned home with notice of detention for being 7mins late & this worksheet. #reasonableadjustments ⁦Gillian Keegan MP

Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Young people…

If you don’t take an interest and vote for your future

This lot will.

After 43 years of chronic pain & the last 5 of it being almost unbearable, last week I spoke to a neurological pain specialist (had no idea they existed). In July I start treatment to resolve my pain. Better late than never eh? Silver lining of the last 5 years 👍❤️

1. 'Sometimes students are just lazy, weak-willed, ill-mannered, misled & obnoxious. We have to account for this unpleasant truth.'

This is one of the most ignorant, psychologically inaccurate and unprofessional things I've ever read - and I've read the works of Tom Bennett!