Never, ever have families needed this more. It is quite simply the right thing to do.

Scrapping the two-child limit would lift 300,000 children out of poverty and mean 800,000 children are in less deep poverty. theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Today is the NHS' 76th birthday. We don't know our future health needs, so it makes sense to me that we keep doing all we can to make the NHS the best it can be. The NHS is made by our people, and this lovely poem from Michael Rosen is a great celebration of exactly that.

Please RT. 🧵1/2. Help needed. We are looking for a child’s hurl that was accidentally left at the toilets at Ballinesker beach on Thursday 11th July around 9pm. It was given to a 10 year old by his Dad who passed away a month ago and is of huge sentimental value.

A new dawn for children's rights As the sun rises over Scotland, Together 🧡 is flying the UN & Scotland flags from the summit of Ben Nevis to celebrate children's rights becoming law through the #UNCRCScotland Act. Happy UNCRC Commencement Day to children across Scotland🎈

Happy Cycle to Work Day! Cycling to work is a great way of fitting more physical activity into your busy daily routine, and there's no better way to enjoy the beginning and end of the work day. Here's how to get started: buff.ly/2WMggtf #CycleToWorkDay 🚴‍♀️

This is better than any speech from a politician we’ve heard recently 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The great Bob Fulton has passed away this week at the age of 101. I only got to know him during the last decade of his life, and those years alone could fill up the pages of a wonderfully surreal biography. Bob was larger than life. 1/

“What you see in Scotland… is a plethora of really lovely policies around children, but what they all have in common is one thing: they’ve never been properly resourced” @SallyAnnKelly1 speaking truth to power! Aberlour Children's Charity

726,000 lives are lost to suicide each year #OTD World Suicide Prevention Day remembering dear friends who lost their lives to suicide, one of the leading causes of death worldwide. #togetherforhope #endthestigma #youarenotalone #LanguageMatters #worldsuicidepreventionday

The Bluebells and The Every Voice Community Choir perform Young at Heart at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. They were performing for the @playlistforlife charity and their #NationalPlaylistDay campaign, which celebrates the power of music for people living with dementia. 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖:

We are delighted to announce that we have a new free mental health service for parents and carers. Get in contact at the details below to refer yourself or to find out more. Sessions will take place at our Glasgow office in Dennistoun.😀

Announcement of a new graduate apprenticeship route for those who want to pursue a career in#SocialWork announced by Cabinet Secretary for Justice Angela Constance at our Social Work Scotland conference is welcomed #SWAConf2024

If John Swinney and Keir Starmer are truly committed to ending child poverty they must be equally committed to tackling public debt. This #CPW24 we need both UK Gov and @ScotGov to work together to tackle the debt crisis to enable children across the UK to thrive.

New ⁦Institute for Fiscal Studies⁩ report finds that Sure Start (at its peak in 2010) saved around £500 million in public spending on youth justice and children’s social care per cohort attending at the time. ifs.org.uk/publications/e…

Child poverty is "the worst it's been for a long time", with debts owed to the public purse for things like school meals and council tax pushing families further into destitution a leading charity has warned dlvr.it/TFmb0x

🆕research led by Dr David Walsh shows UK Government ‘austerity’ policies since 2010 are associated with striking increases in rates of preterm and low birthweight babies, particularly among those living in the poorest neighbourhoods. #HealthInequalities gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

How Billy met Molly - the orphaned otter who is now part of the family bbc.in/4hsWiLn

Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.

This week's column is about growing the capacity to recover from terribly painful experiences, and live your life rather than leaving yourself to cry behind a closed door. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…