“Supporting local venues keeps the community alive” – What’s on this Independent Venue Week in Stoke-on-Trent Independent Venue Week The Sugarmill TheUndergroundStoke SAY 🌙🌒
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Cervical cancer will be almost eliminated in coming decades if HPV vaccination rates are high in children.

In England HPV vaccination coverage in schools is rising again but still below pre-pandemic levels. Please encourage children to get protected.

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BOSSES: we want you back in the office three days a week

STAFF: but I’m so much better at my job with the flexibility

BOSSES: our culture is suffering

STAFF: but I get on so much better with people now

BOSSES: look we paid for this big office, now it’s empty and we look silly

I found it refreshing to hear Humza Yousaf use the words 'moral courage', standing up for basic humanity, rather than the cold, detached, & calculated language of recent politics.

Sets an example of putting people first, real life, rather than obsessing about reputation & power.

Our Exec Director, Tim Bissett, writes in Inside Housing about our 2024 Frontline Worker Survey: lnkd.in/e997GXbt

If you are a frontline worker in the #homelessness sector, have your say today: buff.ly/4aIujDU

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As part of the upcoming Hi! Stoke Festival we are running a raku firing outside in the Spode Museum secret garden. Space is limited, reserve your spot now!

📆 11am-2pm, 10 & 11 Feb 2024
📍Spode Museum

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Psychiatric diagnostic labels are often used when we don't know the biological cause of brain symptoms, such as unrelenting depression, ADHD, OCD, or psychosis.

If someone with 'schizophrenia' is found to have vitamin B12 deficiency and correcting this makes the symptoms go

Maybe this is simplistic but feels like we really need to grow the capability in services to have more curious, grown up conversations. To be human together & willing to be honest & engage with the real issues, noticing where we get pulled into defensiveness. Caring with clarity.

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#Homelessness is a Global issue, thankfully there are also Global socially minded landlords.This little gem will provide much needed move-on DDA accommodation thanks to a landlord based in Singapore who wants to make a difference in where he grew up.
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When people say stuff like 'you shouldn't bring politics into it', I want to reply that everything's political. Poor decisions made in our names. Polarising policies peddled. Human rights attacked. As a wise musician sang, it's all our business. We all have a say about politics.

Wouldnt it be better to have more quality, meaningful conversations??

'But there just isnt time'🤷‍♂️

My experience lately has been of rich, energising conversations that have felt important, sincere, & so relevant. And I'd say there's actually a kind of 'efficiency' to that.

In 2014, a 15-year-old Pakistani schoolboy named Aitzaz Hasan noticed a stranger wearing a suicide vest entering his school.

Despite being urged by his friends to run away, Aitzaz decided to confront the bomber.

He grabbed the terrorist, and that's when the explosive vest

Whatever you views, Social Work England & their Fitness to Practice processes do not come off well in any of this: 'intimidating and hostile environment, which was also sufficient to constitute harassment'

Good analysis as always from Tim Spencer-Lane.
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•Online safety law
•over the counter analgesic sales
•suicidal patients with capacity.

So many #suicideprevention discussions lead to same fundamental issue: the balance of individual autonomy v social responsibility - the need to protect people at risk.

Middleport animated through art and light, the power of creativity to make spaces magical and people happy.

Outstanding commitment to community as always and got to see the smiles of the brilliant Gemma Thomas
& Vicki Gwynne

Support Worker, Jenny, and everyone at Brighter Futures would like to say a huge well done to customer Gemma, for receiving an advanced-level achievement award at Pathway Group after overcoming her anxieties and facing some initial challenges!

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Today has been a brilliant day of back to back #digitalchampion training sessions across the county for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB Empowering practice staff to raise digital literacy and confidence. #digitaldivide

So I have been having a little look at the people who run some of the Welsh anti-20mph Facebook groups.

It seems that many of them a run by Tory politicians.... who live in England....and support 20mph where they live....

Let's go on a journey (at a very safe speed).

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#BlueMonday is a PR stunt that was originally dreamed up to sell holidays. It is a myth, a false calculation based on things like the gloomy weather, post-Christmas debt, disappointment from not keeping New Year’s resolutions, dissatisfaction about going back to work and general