Pressure continues to build across the media to stop the devastating impact of Carer's Allowance overpayments:

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Please sign our petition calling for urgent reform of Carer's Allowance and share with your friends and networks: go.carersuk.org/4aNVUU3?utm_so…

I have been educating for decades on neurodivergence though not always on social media so seen advice, standard knowledge, best practice .

It’s important to remember new generations need this information but don’t forget the inside knowledge of many before them ( I am not…

Great to hear Johnny Timpson speaking so much sense on the carer's allowance overpayment on Radio 4's PM. 'When we sees issues arising they need to be nipped in the bud, before they become a crisis'

Looking for someone to write a fun piece for i newspaper about how f-ing exhausting it must be to live in a throuple. Personal experience not required. Email me [email protected]

Lots of discussion recently from Tim Leunig & others on how redressing the pay & pensions balance in the public sector could aid recruitment.

I asked experts in edu, health and the civ service whether it'd help, and Steve Webb & Institute for Fiscal Studies how it'd work. inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

A year ago Michele Creed Ruth Clegg Nikki Fox - BBC News & Watchdog Presenter BBC News (UK) highlighted the injustice of sending families to court to access one small savings account. A situation still creating a financial loss to disabled young people that by 2029 will be equivalent to six years worth of BBC…

testing something out: re interrupting people and ADHD, is it true that sometimes ADHDers just get the point quicker -- and so are being asked to wait extra long for everyone else to get it too (which is hard when you have a low boredom threshold)?

Latest from me: Laughing Boy is a new play about Connor Sparrowhawk & the fight for justice after his death in an NHS unit. It's about how ppl with Learning Disabilities & autism are - still - at the frontier of the fight for human rights theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

Are you a freelancer who wants to pitch a money/consumer story? Get in touch! [email protected]

Pretty much every child excluded at primary school has SEND. Every so often a stat stops you in your tracks, and this is one of them.

'Mothers of disabled children are disproportionately excluded from the labour market. Just 16% of mothers with disabled children work, compared with 61% of other mothers.' - this stat via the Guardian today (though it's quite old, 2005). I have so many thoughts on this

Niche ADHD meds q: anyone else having probs getting their NHS GP to accept shared care with a private psych?

Now to reveal the shortlist for Personal Finance Story of the Year #HMAwards24 , sponsored by Direct Line Group!

Congratulations to Callum Mason, Moira O'Neill, Jessica Beard, Chiara Cavaglieri, James Fitzgerald & Charlotte Gifford 🎉

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I’ve reported on property for 20 years, here’s how to buy in a tricky market by Jessie Hewitson for i newspaper [featuring the best photo]

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Good morning.

Here's the weekly Child Trust Fund loss report. Disabled young people have now lost £74m from their savings. All due to the ongoing barrier of court action to access one small savings account.

A recent article in the STEP legal journal described the…

If you have a disabled family member at uni or thinking about uni, please read this

Strong parallels with what’s driving the DfE’s proposed changes to SEND policy for schools and colleges