Four day week has real potential to shape a new improved way of working for us all. Especially those with a relationship to care. Deeply disappointing & maddening from the Gvnt. @autonomy-institute.bsky.social @4dayweek.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The latest in the Carers Allowance Overpayment Review and DWP's 'misleading' response from @joshhalliday.bsky.social Quotes from Professor Sue Yeadle and We Care

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Labour polling at 10% in Wales would have been incomprehensible at one point. Brave new world. But this projection shows that Welsh voters are still overwhelmingly progressive. Parties should do everything in their power to ensure a progressive majority in May.

Hello fellow Social Workers and Happy Jane Addams Day! As you know, Jane Addams was a social worker, organizer, and peace activist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago. She's also the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. #JaneAddamsDay #OGSocialWorker

💥 "Billionaires’ wealth has more than doubled since 2010. How many of our constituents can say that their wages have doubled, their standard of living has doubled, that their wealth has doubled in that time?" @richardburgon.bsky.social asking the real questions in the Budget debate.

This looks like the opening scene of a football themed zombie apocalypse movie.

17 MILLION PEOPLE would have access to clean drinking water if debt repayments were slashed...Imagine if all debts were CANCELLED We campaign to win debt justice for millions of people around the world. Support us today and get your donation matched! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Reporting on the £28bn investment on energy infrastructure is making my blood boil. 2 days after our fuel poverty report. Green energy is seen as a cost but never any scrutiny of the £125billion energy company profits. carefulleconomy.co.uk/publications/

What does the gig economy reveal to us about the wider systems that connect us all? And what do we do about it? In our latest episode of Words of Affirmation - out now - our brilliant guest Joe Durbidge from @iwgbunion.bsky.social joins us fo discuss. Listen at linktr.ee/carefulleconomy

There are a few places left for our exciting London event on Friday with People's Economy. Exploring how London can centre care in its economy. Tickets are free and you can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-a...

Lee Anderson, who makes nearly £200,000 a year, repeatedly calls for benefit clampdowns, and described Britain as a “food bank for the world”... ...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Well done @equalitytrust.bsky.social ! Great analysis and report www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You beat me to this. I would go as far as to ask @ippr.org to take this post down and reframe it. It is a huge error which distracts from a really useful analysis.

Let's not perpetuate this language. Let's call it what it is. Hateful. Rooted in bigotry and the gateway drug that allowed austerity to destroy lives.

Normalisation of "gig work" & "gig economy" masks the precarity of work that nearly 5m undertake. This is the tip of an iceberg of the erosion of workers rights. www.theguardian.com/business/202... We spoke to lovely Joe, from @iwgbunion.bsky.social for Words of Affirmation. Give it a listen.

the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

More wise words from @carefull.bsky.social, this time on Paul Scholes' announcement that he's sidelining paid work to care for his autistic son. This is a dilemma that affects so many carers in our economy; article link in the comments

Rockstar Games, "famed for its Grand Theft Auto franchise, the latest edition of which netted more than $1billion (£770 million) in pre-sale orders alone, last week fired all 30 workers who had been part of an Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Discord channel"

This week Paul Scholes shared his experiences of caring for his son alongside his professional role and it resonated with us. In our economy - that devalues and isolates care - the challenges he faced are shared by millions, but not everyone has the resources he has to fall back on.

Read the full article from our co-founder @ruthhannan.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/article/isol...

At Care Full we support the four-day week for its potential benefits to unpaid carers. The government needs to catch up. The evidence points to too many positives to ignore.

Did you see our new report launched yesterday? Check out our thread below.

An excellent briefing on all things care related. Pulling together issues with our current model and setting out the potential for ambitious changes. Thanks for including @carefull.bsky.social new report. Out today.

Care Full ( @carefull.bsky.social ) are looking at how experiences of care unite us all, and how that should be recognised. Please check them out!

Come and join me and Beverley Ward chatting about #RewritingSocialCare in London on Thursday 23 October #BookLaunch www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

My reflections on this positive event, it feels there's a real opportunity for us to shift the narrative on care. We're so keen to create a hopeful future full of abundance for all of us, it's good to see others feel the same.

Few thoughts from me on the newly launched report from @centreforcare.bsky.social

Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Join us in Sheffield on 2 October to hear Keir Milburn in conversation about the alternative: Radical Abundance ✨ Tickets 👉 tickettailor.com/events/wordlife/1838497

People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

New Mexico is getting universal pre school childcare, like the next NYC mayor promises. Over 60 years since Eleanor Roosevelt called for it, this is key to ending the gender pay gap. In the UK we now have 30 hours free, but lack public nurseries + proper pay for staff. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

They are going to need to use hotels to detain Palestine Action supporters at this point

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Thank you to the @highpaycentre.bsky.social for flagging the disgusting disparity. For additional context it would take unpaid carers a MILLIENIUM, yes that's right 1000 years to earn this much! That's £83 p/w for 1000 years!

What a vile individual. This is low even for him. You don’t use recognising Palestine - or anywhere else - as a *threat* to another country. You either have a sincere conviction that statehood is valid and deserved or you don’t. Unless of course you are a hollow vessel with no convictions at all.

If we want a society where we can care for ourselves, one another and the planet taxing the wealthiest is an essential first step.

Never in the field of essential public services has so much been earned by so few for doing so little. 🤬 #PublicOwnershipNow

Campaign groups planning a “festival of resistance” to coincide with Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Scotland have announced demonstrations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh this Saturday Aberdeen: Noon, assemble at the William Wallace Statue at Union Terrace Edinburgh: Noon, assemble at the US consulate

A completely unbiased review of our podcast 😉 But to be fair he isn't wrong. Give us a listen and let us know your thoughts.

Anyone else as mystified as I am by the wilful misreading of these statements by Diane Abbott by the BBC. In interpretation of meaning a basic principle should be to understand the context for the speaker. Does anybody believe the UK is now ‘colour blind’? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fuel duty has been frozen since 2010, and you can now receive £3,750 off a new electric vehicle courtesy of the government. Drivers have never had it so good.

Ruth has a few reflections on @resfoundation.bsky.social event on #carers this morning. Give it a read and let us know your thoughts.

I'm watching this event. A few thoughts - this may end up a thread. I've worked in this space a long time and I could be watching this 20 years ago. David's points in particular are outdated - his point about "weak families" when referring to non-nuclear families is deeply disrespectful. 🧵#carers

A reminder as to how the government and GB energy are blundering in policy amd political terms. Adopting an investor and industry led approach means wealth is being extracted and too little public/community/citizen ownership. Stokes anger. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's a snippet from our Exec Director @heidichow.bsky.social speaking on the opening panel. "Climate finance is a joke" its inadequate for countries to address climate change, it's often in the form of loans. Trapping counties in a debt cycle. We demand debt cancellation! #CancelDebtChooseHope

Worldwide, 89% of people want climate action. Today, more than 5,000 people, including parents and pensioners, doctors, teachers, farmers and youth campaigners, have arranged to lobby at least 500 MPs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The scale of child poverty in the UK is abhorrent. 4.5 million children live in poverty while the government equivocate about making 'difficult decisions'. Here's an easy decision: lift the two-child benefit limit. It would immediately bring 350k children out of poverty.