Charlotte Story

“An historic moment for women’s justice.” Read @PRTuk response to @ShabanaMahmood commitment to establish a women’s justice board tasked with reducing the number of women in prison prisonreformtrust.org.uk/prt-comment-ju…

We don't want politicians' thoughts & prayers. We want buildings to be made completely safe, quickly, at no cost to the victims of the #BuildingSafetyCrisis. You @AngelaRayner can do this by stopping every developer who caused this from building more till they fix their mistakes.

Any residents living in the block affected by the #fire on #PemburyEstate #DalstonLane are being encouraged to go to St John’s church #Hackney, please pass the message on. #PemburyFire #DalstonLaneFire #HackneyCentral

Change.

Imagine you start a new job and they send a strict dress code, down to the colour of your socks and style of your shoe. They also send you a list of equipment which they say you must have every day. Some of it seems a bit strange - two green pens?- but off you go dutifully to Smiths and equip yourself. On the first day, you’re lined up with your colleagues and inspected. Anyone whose clothes aren’t exactly according to the dress code is told they’ll have to work an extra half hour. Same for any missing equipment. The penalties add up - wrong colour socks and missing protractor? One hour after work. You’re a bit concerned at this because you had arranged a lift home and if you have to stay late you’ll miss it. You check your clothes and equipment, all seems okay. You pass the check, but the woman next to you has the wrong shoes. She’s distressed at the news that she’ll be staying late - she had plans later. Tough. She starts worrying about how she’s going to get new shoes to avoid the same tomorrow whilst also staying late at work. You don’t know how to help. You get into your office and look around at your colleagues, but there’s no time to chat. On the whiteboard is a list of expectations for the day. You must be on task at all times and this will be monitored through your computer. Toilet breaks are limited to particular times and you’ll be queuing because it’s the same time for everyone. Eyes must be kept on your computer and this will be tracked. You must sit facing forwards and not slouch. You must use a regulation ruler whenever you read a document. If you break the rules, you’ll be kept after work the same day. You’re told that if you get too many ‘after works’ then you’ll spend a day in the Quiet Room where no one will talk to you for the whole day and you can’t eat lunch with your colleagues or go to the toilet more than twice. You start to feel a sense of unease. You’re worried about whether you can comply and what will happen if you start gazing off into space or rocking on your chair. The office is very quiet. ‘Isn’t it lovely?’ says your manager. ‘People here appreciate our structure and clear boundaries. You’ll do the best work you have ever done here because no time is wasted. We’ve set it up so you don’t have to worry about making decisions, you just do what we say and concentrate on your work’. You think perhaps this isn’t the right place for you, but they remind you that you’ve signed a five year contract without a get out clause. There are no other options. You are powerless. What effect would that have on you? Would you be happy and relaxed at work? Would you be motivated and doing your best for those five years? Might you feel anxious and trapped or resentful and angry? And why would we think it would be any different for our kids?

🗨️ “I applied for a new mortgage six weeks ago and was rejected. (...) Until the cladding is sorted or lenders change their rules, I’m trapped.” ❌ @Lee4NED Why are victims of the building safety crisis still paying for it❓ #lending #mortgages inews.co.uk/news/mortgage-…

@PRTuk are proud to launch our Next Generation Leadership programme. Today 21 dep prison governors aspiring to become governors of the future begin. Thanks to @porticusglobal @jlpc32 and the Hadley Trust for their support and @ecjc for co-facilitating with Pia. Stay tuned!

@SP1nightonly Been in the queue for 90 minutes, still over 3000 people in front of me.... argh!

Tickets for #InsideNo9 Stage/Fright will go on general sale at 7pm 🚨TONIGHT🎭🫣 Wyndham’s Theatre Jan 18 to April 5th. Visit insideno9onstage.com tonight to secure your place. Just don’t book seat 9…

🆕 The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the UK Government to do more to remediate unsafe cladding, describing the circumstances that led to the Grenfell fire as “potential violations of the right to life and human dignity” #BuildingSafetyCrisis pbctoday.co.uk/news/building-…

#hackney #ukpowernet

@helloPeabody it’s been 11 weeks since our last update- please can you get an update for us peabody.org.uk/atkins-sq/

@emilykmay Oi Frog

i need everyone to tell me books that you read your three year olds at bedtime that don't make you want to launch yourself into the sun

@TheBookshopMan It’s fabulous- I love it!!

A 90 year old lady I look after with bad vision spent 3 months making this. She doesn't think it's good. I think it's amazing and full of character. Let's show her how good it is...

On Tuesday 12 March Peers will debate 17 amendments to address the “stain” of the IPP sentence. An influential cross sector coalition has united in support of the amendments. More details below ⬇️

@_MissieBee Mine didn’t sleep through until she was 4yrs- it was absolutely brutal and my mantra became ‘you can’t make another human fall asleep’. We discovered she had Coeliac disease and as soon as we cut out gluten she slept through the night- it was astonishing.

Can anyone who has a child who didn’t “sleep through the night” (I’m talking 7+ hrs) until older pls let yourself be known? My 18mo still wakes frequently & I KNOW it’s normal for some & I KNOW there’s nothing wrong but nobody (whose toddlers still wake) seems to talk about it 😵‍💫

@TheBookshopMan Awesome ❤️

As I was walking down the street today I walked past a family. The father bent down to his 2 young boys and pointed at me. He quite loudly said The Bookshop Man. I've been recognised a lot recently. It is a really weird experience.

#Valencia and #Grenfell should teach us the important truth that the governement must urgently secure the funding to remediate ALL buildings with fire safety and structural defects as it could literally save lives. The #Treasury have proven consistently they will not fund this, so we need the funding to come from the industry that caused the problem instead. @michaelgove @Jeremy_Hunt how many more lives will be lost? You have the solution, the Earl of Lytton's buildingsafetyscheme.org. It's time to implement it to provide the funding to prevent more disasters. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those in Valencia. We need worldwide legislative reform with the buildingsafetyscheme.org to end the crisis once and for all across the world. #EndOurCladdingScandal #BuildingSafetyCrisis @TedBaillieu

More than 500 buildings with ‘life-critical’ defects have no clear remediation plan dlvr.it/T36Grk #ukhousing

@EOCS_Official Heartbreaking 😰

Terrifying news from Valencia in Spain tonight, where a 14 storey block of flats is on fire.