My new blog: From investigating to empowering parents: how MacAlister review should reshape children’s social care communitycare.co.uk/2021/05/24/inv…

Is this what building back better might look like? @Acsocialwork Cal Webb Martin Elliott Anna Gupta

Please watch this. Children in the state's care deserve so much better. KeepCaringTo18 - Article 39, Sept 2021 youtu.be/eY6ConkltlA via YouTube

This is a measure of how far we have come in favouring pensioners over those of working age. Decades of NICs increases and income tax cuts have shifted the tax burden decisively towards those of working age, just as pensioners have seen their incomes rise much faster.

Dez puts her finger on some key Care Review issues. As she often does. Brave and worth reading.

Universal credit cut will lead to more UK children in care – study theguardian.com/society/2021/s…

My very best wishes, Ian.

We call ours the OGC (oldest grandchild). She's lovely too. I'm sure you've earned this relationship, Ian.

Too right. Scarred by staying up to defeats and then by waking up to defeats! But this was a good Friday morning....

Is he all there?

Selling off Channel 4, a profit-making publicly-owned asset, makes no sense. This puts jobs, small businesses and popular TV shows at risk. Rt Hon Nadine Dorries get your hands off Channel 4 #HandsOffChannel4 @We_ownit weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-c…

Another job the careers teacher didn't tell you about!!

30% of children placed in homes are outside the region their families live in. What price sustaining relationships? gov.uk/government/new…

Our latest VI poll has Labour with a *33pt* lead over the Tories, the highest of any recorded poll since the late 1990s. (Fieldwork 28-29 Sep) Con: 21% (-7 from 23-25 Sep) Lab: 54% (+9) Lib Dem: 7% (-2) Green: 6% (-1) Reform UK: 4% (+1) SNP: 5% (+1) yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…

Which of the following do you think would make the best Prime Minister? (28-29 Sep) Liz Truss: 15% (-10 from 6-7 Sep) Keir Starmer: 44% (+12) yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…

Is Liz Truss doing well or badly as PM? Well: 15% Badly: 65% Is the government managing the economy well or badly? Well: 11% Badly: 76% Among 2019 Tory voters, 53% think Truss is doing badly and 63% say the same of the government's economic handling yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…

Why am I not surprised? Thérèse Coffey scraps promised paper on health inequality theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Why am I not surprised? Thérèse Coffey scraps promised paper on health inequality theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

And made ir clear that public services would take the rest of the £25b hit to balance the books. Health. Education. Social care. The justice system.

I'm leaving Twitter as a result of Elon Musk's intentions.