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.@LewisCapaldi gave carers FREE tickets to his gig at the @O2ForumKTown last night, giving them a well-deserved break ❤️ Carmel, who's been caring for her mum for the past 10 years, told us: "You can't underestimate what a moment like this means. I haven't had a holiday in over 10 years, but just having these moments to have joy and share the time, it's everything." Every carer deserves a break. Thank you, Lewis, for making this one possible ❤️ Thank you @academyamg Photo credit: @narinechalabi

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

We were elected to put our arm around the country - not to impose the deepest cuts since George Osborne. These swingeing cuts won’t create jobs - they’ll create poverty. It’s time to pause: withdraw the cuts and work with disabled people to redesign the welfare system.

‘School hasn’t changed! Why are so many more young people unable to attend? Don’t they just have to learn to put up with it?’ I’m often asked all of these questions. So here’s a quick answer. School has changed since most of us over the age of 30 were there. Starting in 2010 with Michael Gove, there was a deliberate shift in schools to a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’. This meant, more focus on learning information and facts. Less focus on play, creativity, problem solving and social and emotional skills. There was a philosophy which ignored child development and instead focusing on how to get more information into children and more test results out. More standardised tests have been introduced starting in primary school. Phonics Screening, Multiplication Tables, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar ‘checks’ AKA tests. Secondary schools have become more controlling. I hear regularly of schools where children walk along lines painted on the corridors in silence. I hear of frequent use of detention and isolation. Parents tell me quietly and say that they can’t complain openly because their children don’t want them to make a fuss. There’s a lot of focus on exam results, and education has become about retaining information. All of this has a huge impact on children’s day-to-day experience. More pressure has been introduced throughout the system. There are fewer options for those who don’t enjoy academics. Teachers are stressed, parents are stressed and it all results in stressed children. When they start to say they can’t go to school, the answer is more pressure. When parents complain they’re called vexatious. The answer is fines and threats. No one is listening. So, no, I don’t think this is the ‘real world’ and they ‘just have to learn’. I do think that something has changed. Schools have become less child-friendly, and the children are telling us so.

PIP reform carries consequences that will ripple through the economy. Unpaid carers save HMG £168 billion pa on social care. No PIP means no Carers allowance etc. implying carers will have to get jobs to exist. So who will pay for the needed social care? (Hint - HMG)

#ThrowbackThursday 2002 - running Comm's teams at West Bar in Sheffield. Pressure, plates spinning all over the place, steep learning curve, cops popping in to chat jobs over, quality breakfasts from the canteen in an iconic, falling to bits station Class! #police #teamwork

Finally found the dang password to this thing. Sorry y’all. What’d I miss?

#PIP Personal independence payments is not an out of work benefit. It is for a disabled person’s care & mobility needs. Many disabled people in work claim PIP whom without this support will not be able to continue working. Can MPs and the media check their facts before they post

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