ofc the pressures that parenting kids struggling with additional needs and/or mental health can push their parents further / away from the paid labour market! So preventative, positive investment in our public services will deliver improved outcomes not just for the young ppl but their parents too.

One of these days, I’m going to write something for someone about the ways in which my autistic seven year old is failed daily by the education, health and social care services that are simply not there for him. The trauma he’s faced will have lifelong impacts. Makes me so 😢😡

Is the asset means test in Universal Credit really just a benefit rule? Or is it a hidden wealth tax? New research looks at how capital limits can impose very high effective rates of taxation on the savings and inheritances of low-income households.

This gives me hope! My son was a voracious reader and has almost completed stopped from about the age of 11/12. I’ve given up trying to strategically place YA fiction in his vicinity! Hoping it’ll return in time….

Congratulations Nasar! Sounds like a really vital and timely contribution. Will look forward to reading

This and all day long. These proposals are a click bait distraction from the very real struggles millions are facing as we go into winter with ever rising prices for essential costs & a threadbare social security system l

Super sadly, this swim has been cancelled due to ominous weather forecast ! But @kittyjstewart.bsky.social and I will be back to do it in 2027 and we just hope our kind sponsors will allow us an extra 365 days to complete our challenge 😂

Three days to this swim which is now such big news it has featured not once but twice on Newscast & includes a mention for my no one supporter, my mum @glasgowoldie.bsky.social (Not too late to support us all!)

I enjoyed this, and we should all add to what I can imagine would be a very long list. My own addition would be our sense of humour, country pubs & the beauty to be found so often on our doorsteps, including in my own home town of Bradford

When my father in law was dying I had a chat with a hospice about trying to move him, & even the care & kindness in that call contrasted so markedly w/ a completely overwhelmed hospital ward. The difference was so stark & no I don’t think any deaths are nice but there are still better & worse ones.

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

You are so lovely but I don’t think I’ll say anything you haven’t heard me say a thousand times before

Sorry for your loss. I supported my partner when his father had a very bad death in hospital earlier this year and I feel this too, and in my very bones. Also (and as an aside) know that when my time comes I’d want a hospice and certainly not home given the demand that then places on family