💥 New legal action news 💥 It's time to take local authorities to task. Foster carers cannot sit back and allow public servants to knowingly destroy their lives.

Elliott and Jordan met the hamster himself yesterday. We were chatting with Mike Brewer (Wheeler Dealers), who we've met before. Elliott said that he really wanted to meet Richard Hammond. Mike saud wait here. 2 minutes later and they had their own personal audience. 🥰

Following the Government’s response to the Education Select Committee’s report on children’s social care in England, it’s clear that the voices of those with lived experience are still not being fully heard. Read our blog featuring reactions from young people: https://loom.ly/dNn0s0k

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Here's Lee Anderson providing a real world example of that age old proverb "It's better to remain silent and let people think that you're a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt."

This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.

Hello from Surrey County Council. 👋 We were invited by the fostering service. We will be talking to children in care about internet safety and how your digital footprint can affect job and further education applications. With a bit of trick or treating too. 👻

Motherland's Anna Maxwell Martin is urging the government to reverse “cruel” cuts to a vital therapy fund for adopted children.

If anyone is passionate about getting those with disabilities & those who need extra help heard especially children then consider donating below Two families (Martin & Bex and The Smith Family) are doing the three peaks in three days as they have seen their disabled children suffer in education

🚨This is not what I expect from a Labour government THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...

🚨These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child and even worse - these changes were introduced without warning, consultation and no evidence base

Psst Rachel Reeves So you're looking for a way to balance the books? Need to save millions/billions? You're in luck.

Imagine this. You are informed that you've been found guilty of something. Then you're informed that there will now be an investigation into the allegations and you're being given an opportunity to give your response and provide evidence.

"This LADO is not for turning" We see this attitude far too often. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that a LADO decision is flawed they will cling to it putting their "reputation" above someone's right to a fair investigation.

Article 39 has sent an open letter to @JoshMacAlister, urging an end to care-less accommodation for 16-17 year olds. No loving parent would leave their GCSE aged child in a caravan alone, or in a hostel with vulnerable adults. The risks are obvious. #KeepCaringTo18

🎉Members birthday giveaway time🥳 Would you like to win a fabulous Christmas treat for your fostering family? We're offering the chance for you to drive around the Silverstone Lap of Lights.

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants. By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

I've been doing some work with an investigative journalist who contacted me. They're looking at private equity in fostering. I've put them in touch with some foster carers who have been treated appallingly by various IFAs.

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

'She doesn't get another childhood': More than a thousand disabled children across the UK are waiting for specialist wheelchairs and mobility equipment that could transform their lives, charity Whizz Kidz says. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm...

We are really busy with allegations, standards of care, panels, early reviews and investigations. This means that it's all hands on deck when there are multiple meetings to attend around the country each day.

A huge thank you to the foster carers who attended the first run of our Internet Safety workshop in Shrewsbury yesterday. Your ideas and feedback were invaluable.

Disabled parking cost for 3 day weekend at Silverstone for the F1. 2024 £90 2025 £170 2026 £360

3pm on a chilled Sunday afternoon and we get jump scared by our own government. Good times...

Sometimes work calls have to wait. In the middle of serious legal call. "I'm really sorry but I'll have to call you back CHEWBACCA IS HERE!" Disneyland Paris with the family.

Hilary Benn is right. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s welfare reforms www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

When you remove human rights for some, you remove them for all. I spoke to @bigissue.com about how Farage’s proposals are a threat to us all. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Everything Farage and RefUK plan rests on them dragging us out of the ECHR. That's why we have to start defending and informing about it NOW. People need to be afraid of leaving it. They need to know the move will threaten their OWN right to ... 🔥 A fair trial 🔥 Fair laws 🔥 Protection from execution

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Same people who complain about immigrants not integrating! They went on a coach trip to the seaside!! Its one of the most British summertime activities you can get!

Repeatedly dishonest/dangerous claims and creepy behaviour by racists, egged on by Jenrick/Farage/RW media, with no pushback from spineless govt/BBC

The second case like this I've seen this week alone. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

The coverage of these really needs to start focusing on the far right creepshotting any non-white family they come across. Bigots taking photos of kids to post online for their sweaty mates should be dealt with like anyone else doing it

Assuming all asylum seekers are predators is wrong and so is assuming anybody Brown is an illegal immigrant or asylum seeker. It's as if nobody has met a non-white British person before. Are Brown people not allowed to go on holiday now?

The behaviour of the racist louts is no surprise. What is shocking and disappointing is that the government does not call it out. Instead they pander to Farage and the right wing media. Stupid people believe what they read in the Daily Mail and Torygraph and no-one corrects them.

As we walked through the car park to the beach we saw the coach and thought nothing of it. Apparently it was a group of Sikhs having a fun dayout at the seaside. They played on the beach + had a picnic. Some rascist woman filmed them, including all of the children and claimed on tik tok that Haven

DON'T FEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE

Oh wow. I did a Subject Access Request to Disney. Why? Because you may have heard that they're being pretty unpleasant to disabled guests at the moment and distraught people in the DAS defender's group wondered if they use AI data analytics to make arbitrary DAS (disability access) decisions.

Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day, just eight days after MPs voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts to #disability benefits. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-q...

A year into a “Labour” government Shall we review? If you are poor, your life is now harder If you are trans, your life is now harder If you are disabled, your life is now harder If you are young, your life is now harder If you are an asylum seeker, your life is now harder

🚩"Child protection trumps everything"🚩 A service manager said this in a meeting this week.

🚩🚩Misuse of child protection processes to silence complaints, advocacy and whistle-blowers. We come across this time and time again. "Professionals" who feel entitled to use threatening and coercive behaviours to silence foster carers. It also happens to SEND parents far too often.

Timely catch-up with the Hillsborough Law Now campaign with @metromayorsteve.bsky.social. Incredible to see how it has grown with so many people from different walks of life now behind it. The message was clear: our resolve to fight for the full Hillsborough Law is only strengthening. 💪🏻

The loan charge scandal has driven people to the brink of bankruptcy, devastated families and has been linked to 10 suicides news.sky.com/story/accoun...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has been accused of failing to consult disabled people on planned benefit cuts during a fiery clash.

Would you want to work in a role where conditions are so appalling that you have to share, quite truthfully, that FosterSupport is the only reason that you're still alive? Yes we have to monitor our members very closely as sadly not all foster carers survive the abuse.

Asda fined £640,000 plus costs for selling out of date food items. 115 out-of-date items found. Since private equity takeover staff sacked, wages cut, people demoralized.

Public Inquiry work. We're off to Westminster again and we are inviting you to join us. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in joining us stating when you are available and where abouts in the UK you will be travelling from as we're looking at arranging coaches.

Social media and Internet safety will be the next grooming and exploitation scandal for children in care. There is no consistency in messaging from services. Social workers within the same service give conflicting information.