Al Russell
@awjrussell
Government Relations Lead @wellcometrust. Mostly distracted by @scotlandteam & @rosscounty. Previously @savechildrenuk, Westminster, Ramallah, Tripoli, Dingwall
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04-01-2011 00:59:46
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Come work Save the Children UK!
We're looking for a new Senior Politics & Public Affairs Advisor to join our team & lead our UK govt & parliamentary engagement on child poverty in the UK.
If you're interested & want to find out more, do get in touch!
jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/senior…
Very important report today from Environmental Audit Committee. Carrying on as we are with inadequate preparation, inadequate insulation and inadequate cooling is a recipe for increasing healthcare costs and fatalities. twitter.com/CommonsEAC/sta…
Labour The Labour Party is revealing its life sciences strategy - details have been press released today and coverage is starting to emerge.
Here's a couple of things that caught my eye, while we wait for the document itself to go online 🧵
digitalhealth.net/2024/01/labour…
PR: @Save_Children condemns killing of staff member & family in #Gaza airstrike. “Too many families like Sameh’s have been killed, too many communities ripped apart…We urgently reiterate our call for a definitive ceasefire,' CEO Inger Ashing Inger Ashing
savethechildren.net/news/save-chil…
When the Government set out its tests for returning to 0.7% in 2021, Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP said:
“Any of my colleagues who are satisfied by that, frankly, are being hoodwinked. The terms the Treasury have set are a fiscal trap'
He was right. As was Jeremy Hunt, who voted with him.
'This is why we’re calling for a ceasefire, it’s not because we’re naïve but because we’re experts.'
Read Gwen's blog: bit.ly/49zEp9H
#StopTheWarOnChildren
Calls for a #CeasefireInGazaNOW have been branded naïve. But the alternatives are no solution at all. We cannot allow children across the region to continue growing up in fear and without hope. Some thoughts on this here savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2023/no-… Save the Children UK
Everything in this piece by Lisa Nandy is true, up until it says the conflict needs a “longer pause” rather than a ceasefire. What use is a plan for education when the bombs start to fall again?
Welcome back @david_cameron. Your new role gives you a big opportunity to transform children's futures. Here's a to-do list to get started:
1. Push for #CeasefireNOW in Gaza & Israel
2. Reverse the aid cuts you opposed
3. Prioritise climate action & tackling poverty & hunger
On daily 4-hr pauses in fighting in north #Gaza ,Save the Children International's oPt Jason Lee said: 'Pauses may briefly stop violence but won't stop hunger, dehydration, disease. North or south, people must be protected¬ forcibly displaced. #CeasefireNOW & access are critical to meet needs.'