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When #girls face bullying in schools, the #RelationalAggression and #CompetitiveFemininity can be hard to spot because it involves toxic rumors, character assassinations & ostracism. Educators must learn to spot clues to #StopBullyingNow | bit.ly/bullyingpreven…

@TheTayrianaStan you can tell social media was quite new when I was in high school because I was told "we can't do anything about bullying online because it's not real bullying" although they couldn't do anything about verbal either or ostracism, just if you actually got beaten up

To be “out accosted from society” is a striking, evocative phrase that blends ostracism (being cast out or excluded) with accosting (repeated, intrusive, often hostile confrontations). It describes a state of double alienation: not only pushed to the margins of society, but actively harassed or confronted by it whenever one surfaces. You exist outside the social fabric, yet the fabric keeps reaching in to jab at you.

🚨 Attendance Professional Learning Time — not a competition. With Department for Education expectations and Ofsted focus rising… 📊 TES: ~60% of staff lack confidence in attendance/EBSA. No time = no expertise No expertise = no culture change

School administrators handing out consequences… Back in the day vs Today

SHE REPORTED 1,400 CHILDREN BEING RAPED. THEY INVESTIGATED HER. Jayne Senior @Jes123tia456 spent 14 years as manager of Risky Business, a Rotherham Council project for vulnerable young women. For 14 years she handed evidence of systematic child sexual exploitation to police and social services. Names. Dates. Patterns. A 42-page intelligence report. She built the jigsaw piece by piece. They shut down her programme. They told her the records were rubbish. They told her she was rocking the multicultural boat. They told her the children were consenting. Children. Ten years old. She risked prosecution to become the source for Times journalist Andrew Norfolk, whose 2012 investigations finally broke the story open to the nation. The Jay Report in 2014 confirmed what she had been screaming into the void since the late 1990s: at least 1,400 children had been abused in Rotherham. Jayne got an MBE in 2016. The council got reputational damage it spent years managing. The officers got their pensions. When she filed complaints with the IOPC about senior police officers who had done nothing, the watchdog warned her that if she kept going, she would be labelled a vexatious complainant and could face imprisonment. She kept going. Her complaint was eventually upheld in 2021. The report naming the officers was never published. South Yorkshire Police @SYPTweet rejected the watchdog's findings. No officers were named. No further action was taken. Someone did warn her the officers might sue her personally if she spoke about it publicly. She spoke about it publicly. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. A youth worker risks prison to protect children. The institutions that failed those children close ranks, bury the reports, and threaten the one person who kept records. The children were the problem, apparently. Not the men. Not the police. Not the council. The woman with the filing cabinet. Source: The Times @thetimes, @BBC, @guardian , @yorkshirepost, Jay Report 2014, IOPC Operation Amazon 2022

@JEPnews Thank you. You nailed it @lever_colin , important, succinct, and beautifully written. Each sentence can be loaded with evidence to back the points made.

For those who advocate drastic cuts in government bureaucracy, just be careful what you wish for dlvr.it/TSHF14

Are we getting value for money from our "recurring" politicians? As someone who supports increasing the salary of States Members, in order to attract people from the private sector, I am astounded at the tenure of some of our repeat candidates, and think it is useful to quantify how much they are costing us. In this list I am looking only at members who've had more than one mandate prior to 2022.

Legal expert standing in St Helier Central dlvr.it/TSGV36

@MozScott Good people leave low hanging cultures, while service users are desperate for top down institutional ‘cultural change.’

@hope4jersey I come from a culture based on merit rather than patronage, one that values reason and evidence over spin. I don’t fit into the States Assembly at all.

The statement I made to the States Assembly on my Report on final stage review of complaints against public services. statesassembly.je/getmedia/69f47… And The Report gov.je/Government/Pag…

Restorative justice not only lacks a strong evidence base, but it also misunderstands how behavior actually works in classrooms. Students don’t change behavior through reflection alone. They respond to consistent expectations, reinforcement, and clear consequences.

"The most common bullying tactics among girls—passive aggression, social exclusion, reputation destruction—became easier online. We were pushed to exclude, judge and scrutinise each other, and to do so publicly." a.co/d/07lOLw1t

SHE TOLD THEM CHILDREN WERE BEING RAPED. THEY CALLED HER "EMOTIONAL." Maggie Oliver (@MaggieOliverUK) spent years as a detective constable with Greater Manchester Police @gmpolice building evidence that the Rochdale grooming scandal went far beyond the nine men convicted in 2012. Hundreds of perpetrators. Countless victims. She had names, she had evidence, she had traumatised girls who finally trusted someone. Her bosses dismissed her as an "emotional woman" and closed the investigations down. One senior officer reportedly told her the victims "should have just been drowned at birth." She resigned in 2012 rather than keep quiet. At the time she faced the real possibility of prosecution under the Official Secrets Act for speaking out. She did it anyway. Her evidence became the @BBC drama Three Girls in 2017. It drove the Operation Augusta review. It kept this story alive when every institution with responsibility for these children had already decided to look the other way. In January 2024, an independent review finally confirmed what she had been saying for nearly 20 years. The review identified 96 men still considered a potential risk to children and noted that was only a fraction of those involved. GMP and Rochdale Council had told the public the 2012 convictions had resolved the problem. The review said they had barely scratched the surface. Nearly two decades of children's lives. Hundreds of perpetrators who walked free. An institution that knew and chose cost savings over kids. One woman who refused to pretend otherwise. The system didn't protect those girls. Maggie Oliver did. Sources: Three Girls (2017) / BBC The Betrayed Girls (2017) Operation Augusta Independent Review @MaggieOliverUK | @TMOFCharity, @ITV

A Jersey nurse has been suspended for six months after multiple allegations of misconduct, including bullying colleagues and providing an inaccurate reference, were upheld by a professional tribunal. Subscribe to read more: brnw.ch/21x1ZJq

I will not be voting Reform. Here are some of the reasons why.

Kids know the basic expectations of school from a very young age. Highschoolers don’t need to be taught not to trash the bathrooms. When we act like they don’t know, we’re giving them a free pass for no reason.

@mitcharj @bailiwickxpress Jersey’s Comptroller & Auditor General gave the same warning back in 2018

Gr8 stuff @AndyW606 So positive & engagin⭐ CYPES & HSC would benefit following suit. It allows ‘issues’ 2b raised informally, (b4 they get bigger), a human face & connection 2 services, ideas platform, & may result in better outcomes eg ⬆️ wellbeing/less dissatisfaction with Gov

🚨 Worth your attention 🚨 “Children need to wrestle and touch and share food and play synchronous games like patty cake. All that stuff is how you develop friendships.” “It’s all gone now or at least it’s greatly diminished. I do not believe there are digital substitutes for children growing up.” “I think the only answer here is to keep them off. If you want to prepare your children for the digital age, keep them the hell away from these digital products until they’re done with puberty, which is around 16.” Jonathon Haidt Professor of Ethical Leadership