Last seats left to join our #ImproveACT parliamentary symposium in #Westminster on Tues with Lord Keith Bradley Abena Oppong-Asare MP Dr Caroline Leah Rethink Mental Illness the president of Royal College of Psychiatrists & Policy Connect to discuss radical changes needed for #blackmen being detained under the #MentalHealthAct

Copies have arrived!! All very exciting! 😊 thank you to all that contributed to such an amazing collection of works.

You can pre-order your copies now from all book shops!

Big shout out to Karen Corteen Rachael Steele and Noel Cross

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Been absent on Twitter for some time whilst making this little surprise fella Baby Bear! Now 12wks old & doing amazing. Just started peeping out the sleepless newborn bubble & back into the Twitter world!

Watching Carole Gould on BBC Breakfast RN talking about the desperate need to revise #domestichomicide sentencing after her daughter was tragically murdered. Keep fighting Carole & Julie 🙌🏼👏🏼 standing firmly beside you! Will fight with u again when I finish maternity leave♥️

. john blease wishing you the best of luck for tomorrow! 🏥 Hope the nurses look after you and you have a speedy recovery! Sending lots of love x

TOP start2 MMU Research & Innovation #MentalHealth writing retreat 2day! Stunning views & food! An inspiring publication talk by Prof Mark Hayter. Perfect set up to get my #ExperienceBasedCoDesign book chapter done! Looking 4ward to dreaming up new research ideas later! Joy Duxbury OBE Alina Haines-Delmont

Two weeks today, Sal and I will be taking on the Great Manchester Run!

We have started a JustGiving page to help raise some funds for our four legged friends at DogsTrust Manchester 🐶

If you can support us in any way then we’d both be eternally grateful 🙏
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I said hell yes! The look of utter shock & pure joy! Haydock’s actually getting hitched! 💍 Someone pinch me! 🤩🥰 Happily Ever Haydock! 🤣🙌🏼🥳

Language is powerful and it is crucial that DHRs hold the perpetrator to account and no not blame the victim throughout. Voluntary DA services should always be represented on panel Standing Together work on processes so useful #HALTCon

We will be watching 2HALT films: The Victim/Survivor Voice which includes people telling their experience of #domesticabuse & the service responses they received when asking 4help. Film 2, That Day, tells the homicide stories on the day it occurred & powerfully conveys its impact

Register whova.com/web/haltc_2022… 4our HALT conf 28th April! Where we bring all the findings from our Economic and Social Research Council project to influence policy & practice & prevent #domestichomicide . Speakers inc Frank Mullane, #DA commissioner Nicole Jacobs, Detective Supt Michaela Kerr & Davina James-Hanman

Every 4days a woman in the UK is killed due to #domesticabuse . Spending today with top Lancs decision makers in the #domesticviolence field to come up with a local and national strategy to HALT future homicides!
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Spoiled with a weekend full of early #ValentinesDay surprises! Feeling the love ❤️ instagram.com/p/CZ6kCL9rneA/…

Heart breaking! Educate yourself. Know how to spot the signs and talk to your children 👇🏼

.MMU Research & Innovation 1st parliament symposium RE our NIHR Research #ImprovE -ACT project. We are discussing Gov proposals to support #BlackMen detained under the MHAct. #ExpertsByExperience are detailing their role in policy reforms & how2 ensure reforms last👉🏼 policyconnect.org.uk/events/improve…

If u’ve not yet been to @restaurant.mana BOOK IT! Best michelin star restaurant we’ve been to! Total food art 😍🎨 @ Mana instagram.com/p/CZRpXZZLSJx/…

I wrote a Christmas song with my good friend Andy Fowler for the ‘Singing for Well-being’ workshop with BeeVocalChoir and The Bridgewater Hall featuring singers from MCR Mental Health Choir! Listen to the full song - youtu.be/wHr4ncZtvV4 Bridgewater for All Laney Craig Adam Blease

Still beaming after last nights BeeVocalChoir session The Bridgewater Hall So many people2 catch up with & so little time! Lovely listening to people say “it feels like home”Dan McDwyer’s song was perfect! Loved meeting so many new people2! Just what the soul needed🐝

Ru a #trauma #researcher or #clinician book onto the nxt 2-day course👇🏼Dr Heather Sequeira demonstrates how2 de-stigmatise & de-pathologists the presentations of #trauma whilst helping clients re-claim their life thru live observations of therapy in action. So refreshing! A #CPD must!

#RRNConf2021 award🥇4outstanding achievement to reducing #restrictivepractices goes to Beth Morrison U are not just a wee mam from Angus. U are a powerhouse force to be reckoned with! Honoured to be fighting the good fight with u! #challenginginequalities