Thank you @TheSocReview for including this in your parenting issue. Thinking of all the mothers who have had their children removed from their care 💛

Really looking forward to @BSC2024Strath this week & excited to be presenting not 1 but 3! times Today at 2.30pm (Level 1 Auditorium TIC), me & @drkatiehunter will discuss how care-experienced girls are disproportionality drawn into the youth justice system

Excited to share NEW findings from my ADR UK fellowship at @BSC2024Strath this afternoon. Claire Fitzpatrick and I have used Ministry of Justice Department for Education data to understand the intersections between care experience, gender and youth justice involvement - a topic close to our hearts.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Domestic abuse rises by 38% when England loses a match, and by 26% when they win or draw, according to research by Lancaster University. We’re thinking of everyone tonight. If you’re experiencing abuse, call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247

#newsround: Another baby dies in an English prison buff.ly/3y5f619

Feltham child prison now described as "most violent prison in the country". Of 84 children imprisoned there at time of inspection, 51 had been in care. 22% of all children too scared to make a complaint. 2 children locked in their cells for 100 days. #EndChildImprisonment

Post Office destroys lives, Water companies pollute our rivers, CCRC leaves innocent people to rot in prison, Covid ministers’ incompetence costs thousands of lives but nobody is punished. Stop traffic on M25 & get 5 years in prison.This is brutally unjust theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Finally, we can shout about this! 📢We've been awarded a huge UK research fellowship #UKRIFLF to study how lived experience leaders imagine the future of criminal justice🎉If you have ideas, get in touch ukri.org/news/68-new-fu…

Unconscious bias (which is rubbish anyway) isn't unconscious if you know about it. So here goes... yet again. I've only watched about half an hour of gymnastics so far, but I've clocked "elegant, graceful, elegant and smooth, full of grace, etc." for white gymnasts and...

Samantha Morton and Jenni Fagan in The Observer. We can only meet with our stories when we speak our stories. This is a complex celebratory piece from two powerful women. In coming together they completely banish shame. Thank you Kate Kellaway . theguardian.com/books/article/…

Discover Dr Katie Hunter's project which used the Ministry of Justice - Department for Education dataset to explore care experience, ethnicity & youth justice involvement in England. It received widespread media coverage and was referenced in the House of Lords. ONS Focus adruk.org/our-mission/ou…

Great work going on in my favourite city ❤️

Had the pleasure of seeing Dani and her co-presenters at the BSC in Glasgow. They blew everyone away and should be so proud of the work!

Rap artist Ric Flo and founder of Black Care Experience Judith Denton have written a song, 'All I Need', about the realities of growing up Black in the care system bigissue.com/opinion/black-…

⚠️ Data released by Ofsted shows that the number of unregistered children’s homes has gone up by more than 500% in the last three years, from 144 in 2021 to 931 in 2024. ➡️ Read more: becomecharity.org.uk/press-release-…

Huge honour to have my ADR UK work recognised at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) awards. Massive thank you to Claire Fitzpatrick and Prof Brian Francis for collaborating on the fellowship and to Rod Weston-Bartholomew's unwavering partnership Barnardo’s. We must stop criminalising of children in care