Alice

Funding to tackle the youth mental health crisis is great, but it must include support for 2 million children with speech and language challenges who otherwise wouldn't be able to access it.

After the exceptional care received over the past 3 weeks in Warrington Neonatal Unit, Danny and I have decided to fundraise to renovate the family room, staff room and bedroom on the unit as a thank you to the incredible staff Please support us 🩷💙🩷 justgiving.com/page/triplets?…

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For many NHS staff, the recent racist violence in this country will leave them feeling afraid and unwelcome. To those colleagues, our message is simple: you are welcome and you are valuable members of our community. Reach out for support if you need it. england.nhs.uk/supporting-our…

wanting to resist with and for you. That's what you can hold on to. We will offer more soon.

young people and adults, of all different backgrounds, thinking about new ways (and learning from old ways) to keep our communities safe, to protect each other from all forms of harm, to resist racism. What we can promise, is that you have so many people that you don't even know

ideologies, who we also worry for. But what we can say with certainty, is that in response to building racism and violence, resistance will grow stronger, and solidarity will run more deeply through our communities. There have always been and will always be people in community,

is 'safe' for young people of colour, or for any young people more targeted by far right violence. It would be wrong to, and realistically, you know more than many that we could never say that with certainty. It is not even safe for those young people being brought into such

Plain text: Young people. It feels scary. We feel it too. Racism is scary. It's okay to feel angry, sad or worried. It's okay to laugh, to minimise, or to not be phased. It's okay to step outside, and go boldly. It's okay to stay inside, and go softly. We can't say that MCR

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1. First up, permanent exclusions (PEX). There have been 2,881 more PEXs issued in 2022/23 than in 2021/22. To break it down, that's: - 443 more in primary - 2,396 more in secondary - 42 more in special schools

Today, the DfE published its latest data on school exclusions and suspensions for the 2022/23 academic year. Here is a short thread outlining the key points of note 🧵

Excellent podcast from my team in Tayside Camhs SLT. SLCN in MH and what we can do to help @NHSTayside @camhsahp @Glennetal @RCSLTLearn @rcsltscot @nic_ahp @LizzyAHP @NAITScotland @CHATayside @JoanneAHPCYPED open.spotify.com/episode/4cWWWf…

Great day with @BCHC_SLT colleagues at the @Summit_LT conference today, delivering vocabulary workshops and networking with our partners in education 💪 @bhamcommunity @RCSLT

Leadership , a document written by ⁦@JamesTCobbler⁩ and brilliantly he is now a Minister of HM government dept of justice. Grown ups doing grown up jobs , remember that ?

Making a real difference in MH SLT =focus on a person, their priorities, more time to support in the peri-environment; physical, social, societal; Amplify, Advocate, Affirm. Why just work on the narrow lens of Speech & Lang? Languaging offers so much more to all! @RCSLTLearn

My experience of my SALT appointment today with more detail. So SALT appointment today was genuinely such a good thing. I was so anxious about the appointment as I talked about yesterday. 1/ #AACuser #AAC #Communication