this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

New rules to stop new council homes being sold off for 35 years (after being built, I think) will "help restore fairness to the system for locals," the Housing Sec has announced. After consulting on changes last year, Steve Reed has confirmed that the Labour Govt will reform the Right to Buy scheme

The Welsh Liberal Democrats’ manifesto includes a pledge to introduce Bil Pob Plentyn, a bill for every child, which includes key commitments to enhance children’s rights in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (including full incorporation of the UNCRC, as Plaid’s manifesto has also done). Great stuff. issuu.com/childreninwa...

Thrilled to see a commitment to full incorporation of the UN convention on the rights of the child in the @plaidcymru.bsky.social manifesto

Pedal Power have a crowd funder going to help them carry on their vital work www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/30-more-ye...

BREAKING - Big Story A memo from Keir Starmer to all members of the UK Gov Cabinet has been leaked. 1/5

Young people are being given the opportunity to question Welsh politicians ahead of the Senedd election

Families will be better off under this plan with 7.1 million children seeing their household incomes boosted by the end of this Parliament. Scrapping the two-child limit to benefits, expanding free school meals, and increasing childcare support for families including for those returning... 1/3

WIN! - a Norman World Exclusive copy of 'HAYWARDxDÄLEK' by HAYWARDxDÄLEK Like, share, and give our page a follow for the chance to win a copy of our limited exclusive of this class industrial hip-hop collab. @relapserecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2117...

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

Scrapping the two-child cap could lift 470,000 children out of poverty. If the Government wants national renewal, it must invest in our greatest asset: young people. Give them the best chance in life—better education, more opportunity, and we all benefit. It’s common sense.

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

Well, that was predictable! www.bbc.com/news/article...

From today, young people aged 16-21 can get £1 bus fares across Wales by applying for a free mytravelpass

Another data point highlighting Welsh Govt’s *disastrous* decision back in 2006 to refuse full devolution of rail in Wales (infrastructure and services). The single worse decision since the return of the Welsh Parliament in 1999. #Cymru #Wales

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

All of us at @childreninwales.org.uk are shocked & saddened to hear the news about Hefin David. Hefin’s valuable contributions to Welsh policy-making, in particular to support children with additional learning needs, will be sorely missed. We send our condolences to his family, friends & colleagues

Voters across the political spectrum want to "take back control" with public ownership 👇👇👇 It would bring down bills and improve how the country works Where is the focus, where is the airtime on this incredibly popular policy that would make our lives better? 💧⚡️📮🚌🚄🏥

Dyma ni yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn Wrecsam. Yma drwy’r wythnos - fe welwch ni yn Hwb y Sector Gwirfoddol. Dewch draw i ddysgu am ein gwaith yn cefnogi hawliau a lles plant a phobl ifanc ledled Cymru ac i gymryd ran yn ein Helfa Drysor 🗺️🧭 #eisteddfod #eisteddfod2025

Zero integrity.

RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.

This is really impressive. Proper comms, so that the public understand the amount of money (close to zero) available, and there's no wiggle room for rumour-mongers and troublemakers. Hats off to the team at Mansfield Council.

When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?

Great to be at @livemusicnowuk.bsky.social's Unlocking Futures: Music is Medicine for Perinatal Mental Health, hearing about the Lullaby Project in NPT - showing how music supports bonding & wellbeing from the start. Article 31: the right to culture & the arts www.livemusicnow.org.uk/lullaby-cymru/

Brilliant campaigning from @savechildrenuk.bsky.social Are the UK government listening yet?

Da iawn to all who have pushed for cheaper public transport for young people in Wales. A really positive step forwards. www.gov.wales/1-bus-fares-...

❗ BREAKING: Almost 40,000 more children are at risk of not having enough food or a warm home because of the 2-child limit, compared to last year. Our social security system is failing to protect children from hunger.

“The two-child limit on benefit payments is now affecting nearly 1.7m children – an increase of nearly 40,000.” Lynn Perry, our CEO, has shared her thoughts on government statistics released today that reveal the number of households affected by the two-child limit on benefits. More: brnw.ch/21wU2to

Cawson ni ddiwrnod gwych yn #Gofod3 gyda’n Tîm Prosiectau a’n Prif Swyddog Gweithredol yn cysylltu â’r sector gwirfoddol. Uchafbwynt oedd ffilm Wythnos y Gwirfoddolwyr gyda phobl ifanc a Jane Hutt MS, yn lansio’r weledigaeth newydd. Diolch i @wcvacymru.bsky.social am ddigwyddiad ysbrydoledig.

Pathetic stuff from ‘senior government sources’.

Great to be at @wcvacymru.bsky.social #Gofod3 conference today for the launch of the new Volunteering Vision for Wales. Particularly pleased to hear from young volunteers engaged in our Building Voices work - a partnership between the Football Association of Wales and @childreninwales.org.uk

The initial results are in for Phase 1 of Wirral's 20mph rollout. An amazing success. Imagine arguing against this stuff "A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)" Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I recently met some of the team at @buttleuk.bsky.social whose Chances for Children grants offer £ for children who have experienced crisis. I know many @childreninwales.org.uk members already use them but if you don’t, please take a look - they’re a valuable resource buttleuk.org/apply-for-a-...

Pleasure to join colleagues and volunteers from @childreninwales.org.uk along with hundreds of others at #pridecymru today

Welsh Government urged to improve air quality www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

Os yn byw yng Nghymru neu hefo'r diddordeb lleol yn y wlad yna mae'n RHAID DARLLEN hwn >>> ESSENTIAL READING for anyone in Wales or with the slightest interest in our country >>>

Research with @transenv.bsky.social finds that average bonnet height in newly-sold cars is increasing by 0.5cm a year, reaching 83.8cm in 2024, up from 76.9cm in 2010. This increases severity of crashes & reduce drivers’ visibility. Clear need for regulation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Yesterday the @childreninwales.org.uk team joined colleagues from @barnardos.org.uk @citizensadvice.bsky.social @savechildrenuk.bsky.social to meet with parliamentarians in the APPG for Children in Wales. We discussed the scandal of child poverty in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 & the need for a welfare led response to end it.

It's International Day of Play today! To celebrate, Play Wales has collaborated with International Play Association (IPA) Cymru Wales and IPA Japan to celebrate the universal joy of play in this fab little video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn3z...

A 200-year-old law criminalising rough sleepers in England and Wales is to be scrapped in what homeless charities have hailed a ‘landmark moment’

The headline rate of poverty barely shifts, but schools have been telling us that poverty in Wales seems to have been growing deeper in recent years. New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis backs up what communities have been saying - a growing proportion of people are now living in very deep poverty.

The Women & Equalties Committee have published our report as part of our series on Equality at Work on paternity and shared parental leave. Some key recommendations: 🚼 increasing paternity leave from 2 weeks to 6 weeks is a start 🚼 include the self-employed 🚼 simplify SPL 🚼 paternity allowance.

Children in England’s most deprived areas ‘less likely to achieve development goals by age five’

This is excellent news.

Pleased to join children’s rights campaigners from across Wales, along with Jane Dodds MS & @sionedplaid.bsky.social for the launch of #bilbobplentyn today - a collection of ideas that, if delivered in the next Senedd term, would dramatically enhance children’s rights in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.