Fiona Collins #supportcareleaversproperly
@FionafromYorks
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Therapeutic parent, adopter, advocate. campaigner for support services to help adoptive families, educator and optimist. Member of the Potato Group.
Joined December 2010
Oh dear! @boostpoweruk you've now cut me off for the 5th time today. This time you were putting me through to the finance department? So that's 6 staff, 3 different departments, 68 minutes on the phone and I'm still no further on . No surprise there sadly.
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Please retweet to help Spot find a home #EDINBURGH #SCOTLAND #UK Aged 9, looking for an adult home with experience of nervous Collies. He needs to be the only pet. He loves walks in the woods and Rich Tea Biscuits! 🍪❤️ DETAILS or APPLY👇 https://t.co/3HsMJElZdt
#Collies #dogs
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27 January 2022: Lucy Powell, 21, was found dead at home Birmingham. Her partner, Gregory Duhamel, 47, smothered her before killing himself #IDEVAW #CountingDeadWomen
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28 January 2022: Marena Shaban, 41, suffered multiple stab wounds at the entrance to her home in Birmingham inflicted by her estranged husband Mohammed Arfan, 42. Arfan was convicted of her murder and must serve at least 22 years #IDEVAW #CountingDeadWomen
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30 January 2022: Lesma Jackson, 84, was found at her home in Enfield, north London, with a number of injuries and died shortly afterwards. Her 50-year-old son Gareth Jackson, has been charged with her murder #IDEVAW #CountingDeadWomen
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1 February 2022: Ashley Wadsworth, 19, was stabbed 90 times by her boyfriend Jack Sepple, 23, at their home in Chelmsford. Ashley had moved from Canada to in 2021, having first met Sepple online when she was 12 yrs old. Sepple was sentenced to 23.5 yrs for her murder #IDEVAW
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This podcast with @SusannahBowyer, Prof Brid Featherstone and Prof Kate Morris on poverty-aware practice with children and families is brilliant around how we can learn from practice across the UK https://t.co/rjJEc4yIOO
#LeadersF22
researchinpractice.org.uk
Professor Kate Morris and Brid Featherstone talk about their powerful body of research and their radical vision for family support and social work.
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📣 Today we're celebrating International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16DaysOfActivism. We stand with activists in the UK and around the world who are calling for change and striving for a brighter future, free of gender-based violence.
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.@george_rook: Some organisations think they don't have the time to invest in co-production. But it's only when you involve people effectively that you can move forward in an effective way #LeadersF22
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🚨 NEW 🚨 Families the Chancellor has pledged to help will still be worse off next year even with the support announced in today’s Autumn Statement Someone unemployed, on a low income, aged over 25 renting a room will be £538 worse off. 🧵
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@AnnaKennedy1 @itvnews Help stop the failing of special needs children in education - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/09oE0ZeqL2 via @UKChange
change.org
Help stop the failing of special needs children in education
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Autistic scholar Temple Grandin: ‘The education system is screening out visual thinkers’
theguardian.com
By favouring verbal thinkers, says the author and animal scientist, essential skills are being lost. Her new book aims to demonstrate the power of processing information in different ways
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@IPSEAcharity Would you have any guidance on mainstream school residential trips when a child has an EHCP? Does inclusion extend to these activities?
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With move of @Bren4Bassetlaw it appears therefore that we are still lacking a Minister for Children in @educationgovuk - are children such a low priority for Truss govt?
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Today’s just saying: 64% of children living in poverty are in working households. #queensfuneral #EnoughIsEnough #mondaythoughts
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TODAY we should remember REMEMBER the 200000 who died of Covid THOSE prevented from attending funerals MANY left alone Times carton today, Morten Morland #ToriesOut74 #TrussOut14 #EnoughIsEnough
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So grateful if Twitter pals could retreat this, I’m so upset that someone would take my painting, I’m only an amateur so can’t understand why. Have you seen my painting? Taken from an art exhibition in Old Hayes, Bromley, on Sat 23 July 2022. Pls contact me with any info.
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The cost of living is going to hit everyone hard. Some a LOT harder than others. We are not all in the same boat. We may be sailing the same storm, but some have a blow up dingy and some yacht. One thing I don’t think you should stop however is paying into your teacher pension.
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